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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Panic on boot in 64 bit 2.6.6-rc1-pa0
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On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 18:50, John David Anglin wrote:
> If schedule is too far away, the linker will add a long branch stub.
> This apparently doesn't work in the kernel.  On the otherhand, `b,l'
> should go about 8 MB without needing a stub.

Well, but it does ... we have other jumps that seem to be correctly
stubbed.

> Disassemble 101369b8 and see if it's a linker stub.

I did; it's genuinely in the middle of the dbl_to_sgl_fcnvxf; no sign of
any stub code anywhere close.

James