Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/boot: Add extended precision shifts to the boot wrapper.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:21:15 +1100

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 06:45 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 16:23 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> >> Code copied from arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_32.S
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[email-masked]>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/powerpc/boot/div64.S |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > Should we just link with libgcc ? :-)
> 
> Please tell me you're joking.

Only half... I wonder what it would look like. Wouldn't ld only pickup
what we use anyway ?

> However, adding this code and wonderful and all but why do we need to
> add it?  Changelog should say why.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Ben.