[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] crazy: Sort u_boot_cmd at runtime
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sat Jul 28 19:46:29 CEST 2012
Dear Marek Vasut,
In message <1343483279-11572-2-git-send-email-marex at denx.de> you wrote:
> This shall eliminate the need for bubblesorting of commands at runtime.
> Every command definition structure is now put into it's own subsection
> of section .u_boot_cmd, that is .u_boot_cmd.<name> . These are then put
> into .u_boot_cmd by linker and lastly, linker uses SORT() over these
> subsections to make proper order on them. This shall eliminate some
> runtime overhead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
> ---
> arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds | 2 +-
> common/cmd_help.c | 2 +-
> include/command.h | 9 ++++++---
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Seems incomplete in several aspects:
1) what about all the non-ARM architecures and the board specific
linker scripts?
2) what about removing the sort code?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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