Am 22. Mai 2023 21:37:26 MESZ schrieb Sam Edwards <cfswo...@gmail.com>:
>Hi Ilias,
>
>On 5/22/23 00:52, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
>> I can help clean up the arm architecture even further. I was toying
>> with the idea of having page-aligned sections and eventually map
>> u-boot with proper permissions per section. Right now (at least for
>> the majority of arm platforms) we are doing RWX for all the memory,
>> apart from devices that are mapped as RW. I do have an awfully hacky
>> PoC around, but the linker script cleanup is more than welcome.
>
>Glad to hear it (and excited by the idea of proper W^X)! The linker script
>cleanup (i.e. deleting those pesky `sections.c` files and going back to
>linker-assigned symbols) can really happen whenever; it won't cause a problem
>on any version of GNU ld from <7 years ago. Perhaps a series of patches (one
>per arch) doing that should be landed first?
>
>> It's probably not a mailing list issue. I only got the efi related
>> patches on my mailbox. The recipients were generated with
>> get_maintainers.pl? Heinirch and I only received the efi* portions as
>> we maintain that subsystem
>
>Well, it's true that you and Heinrich weren't Cc: on every email in the
>series. I just went with patman's default behavior.
>
>But every patch was sent To: the u-boot list, and I do see the whole series
>showing up on the archive. Did you not even receive the other patches in the
>series via the list?
The series can be retrieved from patchwork. I personally dislike patman for
this eclectic behavior. Git send-email is doing the expected.
Best regards
Heinrich
>
>Cheers,
>Sam