On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:41:34 -0400
Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2013, Kim Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Enable the compiler intrinsic for byte swapping on arch ARM.  This
> > allows the compiler to detect and be able to optimize out byte
> > swappings, and has a very modest benefit on vmlinux size (Linaro gcc
> > 4.8):
> > 
> >    text        data     bss     dec     hex filename
> > 2840310      123932   61960 3026202  2e2d1a vmlinux-lart #orig
> > 2840152      123932   61960 3026044  2e2c7c vmlinux-lart #builtin-bswap
> > 
> > 6473120      314840 5616016 12403976 bd4508 vmlinux-mxs #orig
> > 6472586      314848 5616016 12403450 bd42fa vmlinux-mxs #builtin-bswap
> > 
> > 7419872      318372  379556 8117800  7bde28 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #orig
> > 7419170      318364  379556 8117090  7bdb62 vmlinux-imx_v6_v7 #builtin-bswap
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <[email protected]>
> > Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
> > Acked-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
> 
> Did this ever go somewhere?
> 
> Russell suggested at the time to base it against a mainline kernel 
> (since it was patching files which apparently were already patched with 
> out-of-tree lz4 patches) and send it to his patch system.

I'll re-base and send it to his patch system.

Thanks,

Kim

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