From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Stanislaw Skowronek <sskowron@ET.PUT.Poznan.PL>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 32-bit ABI
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:38:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040424073802.GA25515@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10404240927450.13336-100000@helios.et.put.poznan.pl>
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:31:14AM +0200, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote:
> > So there is no relation at all to modules. You btw. can load 64-bit ELF
> > modules into a kernel which was built using above trick as 32-bit ELF.
> > That's necessary because modules are currently allocated through vmalloc
> > which allocates space in XKSEG.
>
> Ah, so it's like that. Great. Is the ELF64 support still not correct?
No, it's supposed to be working now.
> > > I have changed it to 64-bit abi in my Octane kernel, because it won't even
> > > compile otherwise. I've got gcc 3.3.2, gas 2.14.
> > Octane has no memory at all in CKSEG0?
>
> Well, as far as I know, and I'm probably right, it _does_ have some memory
> there. A whopping 16 kilobytes of memory mirrored by the HEART to allow
> placing exception vectors there (what a weird idea).
That's what the processor expects.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-24 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 8:02 MC Parity Error Florian Lohoff
2004-04-23 13:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-23 16:45 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-23 17:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-23 20:43 ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-04-23 21:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 6:28 ` 32-bit ABI Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 7:09 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24 7:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 7:31 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 7:38 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-04-24 7:46 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 7:51 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 7:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 8:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 8:14 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 8:18 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 8:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 8:26 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 8:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 8:14 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 8:17 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 8:26 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24 7:37 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24 7:18 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24 7:34 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 7:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24 7:47 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24 7:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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