Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH]IA64 kexec/kdump patch for INIT

Takao Indoh
2006-09-13T02:27:59Z

On 11 Sep 2006 14:12:13 +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:

> I am not quite sure though, if OS_INIT is happened during a module
>execution, or happened when system is in user space, what GP value will
>be passed from SAL/PAL? If the gp value is the physical address of the
>modules 's gp, we can't set GP value according to that, because
>ia64_init_handler is inside kernel.

When OS_INIT handler is called from SAL, gp register is always
set to the value which is specified by ia64_sal_set_vectors,
I think.

Regards,
Takao Indoh