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On August 20, 2016 9:59:59 PM PDT, Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:57:18PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 08/19/2016 04:41 PM, mcg...@kernel.org wrote: >> > Please let me know if there are any issue or questions. >> >> Only that this has been the majority of the traffic on the linux-sh >> mailing list for over a month and I'm still not sure why anyone >should care. >> >> I have no idea what problem it solves, despite reading a couple dozen >> messages in the thread, and the most recent two 0/x intro messages. >Its >> purpose seems to be ensuring that lld.llvm.org has more work to do if >it >> ever wants to build the kernel without binutils? >> >> I also am not certain why every revision of it is cc'd to linux-sh. >Is >> it generic linker infrastructure change, or is it something that >affects >> this architecture specifically? As far as I can tell nothing in this >> most recent 7-patch series touches arch/sh at all, you just cc'd our >> list because you think the work you're doing is _important_, not that >> it's specifically relevant to us. > >Incidentally I'm happy to have been CC'd since this infrastructure is >_really_ nice for doing things generically with device tree. The >ability to add new linker-section-based tables without having to >manually hack up linker script templates will make it so we can do >things like adding tables for cache controllers or mmus (that are >needed quite early in init and can't go through the platform device >system). > >BTW we kinda lucked out that there was already the linker table >infrastructure for cpu enable methods for smp; this patch series makes >it so future stuff doesn't have to rely on luck or invasive changes. > >Rich Incidentally, I want to use this for the RAID algorithms. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
