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    SubjectRe: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table
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    On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 05:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
    > This ports built-in firmware to use linker tables,
    > this replaces the custom section solution with a
    > generic solution.
    >
    > This also demos the use of the .rodata (SECTION_RO)
    > linker tables.
    >
    > Tested with 0 built-in firmware, 1 and 2 built-in
    > firmwares successfully.

    I think we'd do better to rip this support out entirely. It just isn't
    needed; firmware can live in an initramfs and don't even need *any*
    actual running userspace support to load it from there these days, do
    we?

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    dwmw2

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