[OLPC-devel] Re: linker garbage collection

[Daniel Walker]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:54 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> However, latest patch is still http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169
> 
> Current TODO:
> 
> * Condition CONFIG_GC_SECTIONS on presence of a recent binutils 
> * Extra config option to allow for non used exported symbols to be swept (must be 
> non default behaviour) 
> * Recursive make invocation from Makefile is sort of ugly, Makefile changes
> can beautified.
> * Do the same as done for ksymtab* to kcrctab* (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS)
> * Cover other architectures with KEEP() directives
> 
> After fixing those trivial items garbage collection should be ready for
> mainline merge.
> 

Ok. I'll see if I can accomplish some of this. Thanks for the hints.

Daniel