From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: FIX MES in init.c
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:48:31 +0200
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Hi Nick,

On 09/22/2014 09:24 PM, nick wrote:
> Greetings James and Other Maintainers of the Parisc Architecture,
> I am wondering about two fix mes in init.c and how to fix them
> for being const declared into actual variables.
> ...
> 	/* FIXME: This is 'const' in order to trick the compiler
> 	   into not treating it as DP-relative data. */
> 	extern void * const linux_gateway_page;

The FIXME: is misleading. It should maybe better read "HINT:" or something like that.
Trivially it's basically just casting the symbol so that the compiler
will produce the correct code later on.
There is nothing you could try to "fix".

Helge