From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takao Indoh Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:27:59 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH]IA64 kexec/kdump patch for INIT Message-Id: List-Id: References: <82C6D21B8B7A9Cindou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <82C6D21B8B7A9Cindou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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