Re: [PATCH 1/3] Remove '-mno-explicit-relocs' option when CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:18PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> From: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch removes '-mno-explicit-relocs' usage when
> CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 is set since this option was only required
> with the old hack to truncate addresses at the assembly level
> where "-mabi=64 -Wa,-mabi=32" was used.
> 
> This should yield a small code size improvement for inline
> assembly, where the R constraint is used.
> 
> The idea is coming from Maciej <macro@linux-mips.org>.

It looks like nothing ever came of these patches?  I tried to boot my
Sentosa again today, and needed a slightly updated version of them.

I'm not positive I did the update correctly, though, since the board
panics in swapper after jumping to a bogus pointer.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery