Re: add new code section for kernel code

[Russell King]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:14:24PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:02 +0300, saeed bishara wrote:
> > I noticed the arch/arm/boot/compressed/ files compiled with
> > ffunction-sections switch, so I added the -fno-function-sections to
> > the EXTRA_CFLAGS of the compressed/Makefile. And this solved the
> > problem.
> 
> can you send a patch for this to Russell ?

I'd prefer not to paper over such bugs.  Maybe the following patch will
fix the decompressor for saeed?

diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
--- a/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
+++ b/arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SECTIONS
     _start = .;
     *(.start)
     *(.text)
+    *(.text.*)
     *(.fixup)
     *(.gnu.warning)
     *(.rodata)


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Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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