[PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> The following series of patches are targetted at two issues:
> 
> 1. Fixing large initramfs causing PC24 relocations to become out of
>    range.  This fixes both modules and link-time errors.
> 
> 2. Making the vmlinux easier to pinpoint the various section-built
>    data structures and inspect them later.
> 
> For the main kernel, this allows the size of various sections to be
> determined via objdump -h.  This also aids objdump -d and -s usage
> when asking it to target a particular section.
> 
> For the decompressor, it means that it is now trivially possible to copy
> out the compressed kernel vmlinux image by:
> 
>   arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -j .piggydata arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux \
> 	piggy.gz
> 
> and thereby obtain the binary kernel image (the Image file) which was
> originally used.

Looks good.  For the whole series:

Acked-by: nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>


Nicolas