[U-Boot] [PATCH] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Jan 26 18:26:46 CET 2011


On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:22:34 -0600
Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> > Dear Scott Wood,
> > 
> > In message <20110125143740.2e1f2c84 at udp111988uds.am.freescale.net> you wrote:
> >> 
> >> Do you have a simpler way to do this?  Note that for any board that
> > 
> > e009cde   powerpc: Fix FPU post related link warnings
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> >>> given the fact that there are
> >>> no intentions to work with floating point data in U-Boot?
> >> 
> >> FPU POST doesn't count?
> > 
> > No, it does not count, because it is a very special situation where
> > we are executing instructions that are guaranteed to be never used in
> > any real code in U-Boot.
> > 
> >> Or are you saying FPU POST should be removed?
> > 
> > Of course not.
> 
> I thank you all, as I've enjoyed this thread for something we've just fixed :)

The joys of e-mail threading. :-)

-Scott



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