As suggested by Nick Piggin it seems we can drop the -ffunction-sections
compile flag, now that the kernel uses thin archives. Testing with 32-
and 64-bit kernel showed no difference in kernel size.
Suggested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
# kernel.
cflags-y += -mdisable-fpregs
-# Without this, "ld -r" results in .text sections that are too big
-# (> 0x40000) for branches to reach stubs.
-cflags-y += -ffunction-sections
-
# Use long jumps instead of long branches (needed if your linker fails to
# link a too big vmlinux executable). Not enabled for building modules.
ifdef CONFIG_MLONGCALLS