Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table

From	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table
Date	2016-02-29 11:20 +0100
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On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 05:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> This ports built-in firmware to use linker tables,
> this replaces the custom section solution with a
> generic solution.
> 
> This also demos the use of the .rodata (SECTION_RO)
> linker tables.
> 
> Tested with 0 built-in firmware, 1 and 2 built-in
> firmwares successfully.

I think we'd do better to rip this support out entirely. It just isn't
needed; firmware can live in an initramfs and don't even need *any*
actual running userspace support to load it from there these days, do
we?

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dwmw2

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Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> - 2016-02-29 11:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-02-29 20:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> - 2016-03-01 17:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-03-01 19:00 +0100

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