Re: add new code section for kernel code

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:49 +0300, saeed bishara wrote:
> inorder to reduce image size of the kenrel I added the --gc-secions
>  flag to the LDFALGS_vmlinux, the image size reduced by 120KB (out of
> 1.8M), but the kernel failed to boot ( after the uncompression stage).
> any idea?
> I see that the fvr arch aleady using those flags.

there are some known binutils "issues" (or better "interactions") that
make this not yet practical.


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