On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 14:40 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:28:36 -0500 > > > Sorry, I meant the gcc patch. I'm not sure if this has been committed > > to FSF head or not. > > If that's the case it would be a good idea to suggest a command line > option to disable the new out-of-line code generation feature of that > patch. > > But if the stubs it calls are really simple, you can just add > implementations under arch/powerpc/lib/, and therefore it's > not such a big deal. This is what we've traditionally done > with libcalls generated by gcc for runtime support.
My only worry with this is modules. That is, it would be fairly non-sensical for module code to go through the trampoline to call those stubs in the kernel (and having to EXPORT_SYMBOL them). In the case of those register save stubs, I believe they should really be linked with the modules. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
