[PATCH 6/7] compressed: rename barebox target to zbarebox and zbarebox.bin

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Mon Jul 23 04:18:07 EDT 2012


On 10:05 Mon 23 Jul     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:02:08AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > On 09:16 Mon 23 Jul     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does it really?
> > > 
> > > I see this goes back to:
> > > 
> > > commit 8a03bff03ebf36b7460e6ec43259bc8b40731ece
> > > Author: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > > Date:   Thu Jul 3 10:30:44 2008 +0200
> > > 
> > >     [arm] Add cleanup flags only when modules are disabled. Otherwise
> > >           we remove functions from the binary which are needed for
> > >           modules
> > > 
> > > I can't see though why this should happen. What is needed for modules
> > > is defined by EXPORT_SYMBOL.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately modules are quite broken atm for me anyway, so I can't
> > > test.
> > except you need to use the barebox file to link the ko
> > 
> > and that is one of the reason we do need to call the compressed barebox
> > zbarebox
> > 
> > and I'd like to be able to detect when it's a normal barebox and a zbarebox
> > so need to have start.c compiled 2 times
> > 
> > I really do not like this link with the whole barebox in the zbarebox
> > 
> > keep stuff clean and seperated is really better
> 
> Well, send patches ;)
THis is what this patch do

Best Regards,
J.



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