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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: kbuild update
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:36:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070603203611.GA8834@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)

Short intro to content of kbuild.git at the moment.
See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild.git;a=summary

Everything are targeted for next merge window.

section mismatch
      kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on i386, arm and mips
      kbuild: The .paravirtprobe section is obsolete, so modpost doesn't need to handle it
      kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
      kbuild: refactor code in modpost to improve maintainability
      kbuild: warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
      kbuild: remove hardcoded apic_es7000 from modpost
      kbuild: refactor code in modpost
      kbuild: remove hardcoded _logo names from modpost
      kbuild: suppress modpost warnings for references from the .toc section as used by powerpc
      kbuild: whitelist references from variables named _timer to .init.text

Several changes to either improve reporting - or to ignore false positives.
In particular modpost now check for and warn about references from .init.text to .exit.text
This check caugth several real bugs - which for the most part are already fixed in upstream.
modpost now does a better job finding the symbols using addend - this works for me
but had caused troubles in the past. If modpost suddenly bails out with a segmentation
violation this may the the culprint.
In addition some trivial code refactoring was done to improve maintainability of modpost.


      kconfig: use POSIX equality test in check-lxdialog.sh
Bugfix.


      scripts: Make cleanfile/cleanpatch warn about long lines
Improved so we all adhere to 80 lines (in)sanity


      kbuild: avoid environment to set variables used by kbuild
I had a report that a user tried to do:
EXTRA_CFLAGS=FOO make fs/nfs/
This is not supposed to impact the build so make sure it does not.


      kbuild: add support for reading stdin with gen_init_cpio
      kbuild: add support for squashing uid/gid in gen_initramfs_list.sh
initramfs improvements


      kbuild: asm-offsets.h is now cleaned with O=.. builds
Bugfix


      kbuild: document cc-fullversion
      kbuild: New 'cc-fullversion' macro
      powerpc: Refuse to build 64-bit with GCC-4.2.0 and CONFIG_MODULES
Add and use cc-fullversion to obtain exact gcc version
See documentation in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt


What's next?
-> davem has requested to add a new section used for code modifying support.
   The actual section name to use needs to be sorted out.
-> A few cygwin specific changes may hit kbuild - to allow the kernel to be built
   using cygwin on a windoze box.
-> A few trivial kconfig changes are pending. Needs to review them before they are ready.
-> A speed-up of headers_check is in the works. Got stalled but will look into it soon.
   The check goes down to ~3 sec on my not-so-fast machine
-> If I get really bored I may start a 'cleaning up all vmlinux.lds files' round.
   If someone would help out here it would be appreciated.
   These change will then be merged via the arch-maintaines and not really kbuild stuff..

	Sam

             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-03 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-03 20:36 Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-06-03 20:51 ` kbuild update Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-03 21:04 ` [kbuild-devel] " Chris Smith
2007-06-03 21:10   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16  9:47 Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 12:58 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-16 15:13   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-16 15:21     ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-16 19:23   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-16 20:38     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-03 21:32 Kbuild update Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-03 21:46 ` Josh Boyer
2008-01-03 22:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 19:43   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-04 20:09     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-04 13:23 ` WANG Cong
2008-01-04 14:39   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-05  5:48     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 14:26       ` WANG Cong
2008-01-06 15:07         ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-06 15:45           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-09  2:32             ` WANG Cong
2008-01-09  5:18               ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-09  2:28           ` WANG Cong

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