From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:18 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: parisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32-rc1~42
X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab635e7d499f23a5791e69e2ebbc9a40c9983d89

parisc: Remove useless altinstructions code copied from x86.

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>
---

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 3fd66d9..775be27 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -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 = .;