[PATCH v3] ARM: xip: Use correct symbol for end of ROM marker

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Wed Nov 18 09:07:58 PST 2015


On Wed, 18 Nov 2015, Chris Brandt wrote:

> > With XIP there is still an init section, [snip]
> > No need to page align it either at that point which should save some
> > ROM space.
> 
> Good point.
> 
> > Things like .kprobes.text should be in ROM, [snip]
> >
> > Etc. Etc.
> 
> Here's the thing...I'm probably out of my depth on most of this. But, 
> I'd be happy to post up a RFC patch and then start collecting the 
> feedback on what can be removed. I can at least test it on a real XIP 
> system.

Sure.  You should start by splitting the XIP stuff out to a separate 
script so functionally it is the same (broken) end result.  And from 
there adding incremental fixes to the XIP script.


Nicolas



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