Re: [PATCH] x86 (Linux Tiny): configure out support forsome processors

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 18:36:16 EST



On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:01 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > Best would be to have no ifdefs and do it all with linker magic, of
> > course. But that's trickier.
> >
>
> I concur with this, definitely.

Ok, so let's come up with a plan. We can:

a) use weak symbols, ala cond_syscall
b) use a special section
c) use early_init code (is it early enough?)
c) have some sort of registration list

Having a generic cond_call of some sort might be nice for this sort of
thing.

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