Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

[Abhishek Sagar]

On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch
> (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch).

This is good stuff. I had been using a ported variant of this
optimization for ARM on quite an older 2.6 kernel for a while now. I
derived that port from:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169

With some tweaks it worked for me. Could you also have a look at the
mentioned link and see if that's a superset of what you're trying to
achieve?

--
Abhishek Sagar
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