Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Walmsley
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Paul Walmsley wrote: Hello Thomas On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: WARNING: This is only a proof-of-concept, there are many known issues. The sole purpose of this patch is to get some feedback on whether the idea is useful or not, and whether it's worth

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2011-01-02 Thread Paul Walmsley
Hello Thomas On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: WARNING: This is only a proof-of-concept, there are many known issues. The sole purpose of this patch is to get some feedback on whether the idea is useful or not, and whether it's worth cleaning up the remaining issues. As Aaron and

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-23 Thread Aaro Koskinen
Hi, On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Tony Lindgren wrote: * Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com [101221 14:00]: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:35 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Therefore, we introduce an infrastructure that allows to put code and data into specific sections,

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:31:46 +0200 (EET) Aaro Koskinen aaro.koski...@nokia.com wrote: No not yet, will take a look after we're done with this upcoming merge window.. I also think the idea is good, and this should be maybe posted to wider audience than just linux-omap. Yes, definitely. As

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-23 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Aaro Koskinen aaro.koski...@nokia.com [101223 04:31]: Hi, On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Tony Lindgren wrote: * Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com [101221 14:00]: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:35 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Therefore, we introduce an infrastructure

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-22 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com [101221 14:00]: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:35 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Therefore, we introduce an infrastructure that allows to put code and data into specific sections, called conditional sections. All those

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-22 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:28:41 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Nice to see that the idea is welcome. Did you had a look at the implementation in patch 1/6 ? No not yet, will take a look after we're done with this upcoming merge window.. Great, thanks. Ideally the new sections

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-22 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com [101222 10:55]: On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:28:41 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Nice to see that the idea is welcome. Did you had a look at the implementation in patch 1/6 ? No not yet, will take a look after we're done

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-21 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com [101221 10:20]: From: Thomas Petazzoni tpetazz...@ti.com WARNING: This is only a proof-of-concept, there are many known issues. The sole purpose of this patch is to get some feedback on whether the idea is useful or not, and whether it's

Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add infrastructure for conditional code and data sections

2010-12-21 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:27:35 -0800 Tony Lindgren t...@atomide.com wrote: Therefore, we introduce an infrastructure that allows to put code and data into specific sections, called conditional sections. All those sections are compiled into the final kernel image, but at runtime, by calling