parisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.
authorTim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:18 +0000 (10:36 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:16:21 +0000 (17:16 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

index 3fd66d97fcaa92519df054d912acb3270643b7fc..775be2791bc27e1313e73bf49d1e4d1ee8984dcd 100644 (file)
@@ -135,31 +135,6 @@ SECTIONS
        INIT_TEXT_SECTION(16384)
        INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
-       /* alternate instruction replacement.  This is a mechanism x86 uses
-        * to detect the CPU type and replace generic instruction sequences
-        * with CPU specific ones.  We don't currently do this in PA, but
-        * it seems like a good idea...
-        */
-       . = ALIGN(4);
-       .altinstructions : {
-               __alt_instructions = .;
-               *(.altinstructions)
-               __alt_instructions_end = .; 
-       } 
-       .altinstr_replacement : {
-               *(.altinstr_replacement)
-       } 
-
-       /* .exit.text is discard at runtime, not link time, to deal with references
-        *  from .altinstructions and .eh_frame
-        */
-       .exit.text : {
-               EXIT_TEXT
-       }
-       .exit.data : {
-               EXIT_DATA
-       }
-
        PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
        . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
        __init_end = .;