Re: [edk2] [PATCH 0/2] AARCH64 tiny code model support

2015-08-18 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
On 10 August 2015 at 12:27, Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheu...@linaro.org wrote: The AARCH64 GCC builds use the GCC large code model by default, simply because it is the code model that requires the least amount of hacking to produce code that supports the PE/COFF conversion applied by Tianocore.

[edk2] [PATCH 0/2] AARCH64 tiny code model support

2015-08-10 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
The AARCH64 GCC builds use the GCC large code model by default, simply because it is the code model that requires the least amount of hacking to produce code that supports the PE/COFF conversion applied by Tianocore. However, it is suboptimal in more than one way: - each symbol reference requires