[RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

[Woodhouse, David]

On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 22:17 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > +$(obj)/bswapsdi2.o: $(obj)/../../../../arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/bswapsdi2.o
> > +     $(call cmd,shipped)
> > +
> 
> I don't think you can get away with this.  The decompressor code is 
> compiled with -fpic and the main kernel is not.  Most toolchains do mark 
> object files with some flags to prevent the link of incompatible objects 
> together (normally pic and non pic objects are not compatible even if in 
> this very simple case that would not matter).  Maybe you are able to 
> link zImage successfully simply because no references to __bswap* needed 
> to be resolved and therefore the linker didn't need to search/include 
> that object?

This, and the issue with -Os vs. -O2, make me inclined to suggest that
we should just provide an asm version of these functions instead of
using the compiler.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation
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