[U-Boot] [PATCH] Add gc-section support for ARM

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Charles,

In message <201205161007.59560.manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz> you wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2012 17:12:05 Mike Frysinger wrote:
...
> > current u-boot policy is to not introduce changes that knowingly break
> > other platforms.  so if you want to update the common arm config.mk, you
> > need to at least compile test all arm boards.
---------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Doesn't that makes it an impossible task? Not having all the boards makes it 
> pretty hard to test them all.

A compile test does not require any actual hardware.

> > other arches are using both fine, so it isn't a problem of common code.
> 
> I might be incorrect, but I have noticed what appears to be some differences 
> between different versions of binutils.

Please be more specific. The same "different versions of binutils"
appear to work fine on other architectures ?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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