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* [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support
@ 2000-04-18 22:47 roneng
  2000-04-18 23:12 ` David Mosberger
  2000-04-18 23:17 ` Mallick, Asit K
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: roneng @ 2000-04-18 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64


Hi,
I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel after using the
latest linker
which supports long branches (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile
large shared libraries.
I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50
support
long branches, or if anyone is working on long branch support for the
kernel.

Thank you,
Ronen Grosman
- e-mail roneng@ca.ibm.com





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* Re: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support
  2000-04-18 22:47 [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support roneng
@ 2000-04-18 23:12 ` David Mosberger
  2000-04-18 23:17 ` Mallick, Asit K
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: David Mosberger @ 2000-04-18 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

>>>>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:47:38 -0400, roneng@ca.ibm.com said:

  Ronen> Hi, I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel
  Ronen> after using the latest linker which supports long branches
  Ronen> (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile large shared
  Ronen> libraries.  I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest
  Ronen> kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50 support long branches, or if anyone
  Ronen> is working on long branch support for the kernel.

The kernel support for "branch long" emulation doesn't exist yet.
Patch welcome. ;-)

	--david



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* RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support
  2000-04-18 22:47 [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support roneng
  2000-04-18 23:12 ` David Mosberger
@ 2000-04-18 23:17 ` Mallick, Asit K
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mallick, Asit K @ 2000-04-18 23:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-ia64

We are working on the code to emulate "branch long" instruction and will
have the code soon.

Thanks,
Asit


-----Original Message-----
From: David Mosberger [mailto:davidm@hpl.hp.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 4:13 PM
To: roneng@ca.ibm.com
Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support


>>>>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 18:47:38 -0400, roneng@ca.ibm.com said:

  Ronen> Hi, I am getting an illegal instruction fault from the kernel
  Ronen> after using the latest linker which supports long branches
  Ronen> (i.e. branches greater then 16M) to compile large shared
  Ronen> libraries.  I was wondering if anyone knows if the latest
  Ronen> kernels 2.3.51/or 2.3.50 support long branches, or if anyone
  Ronen> is working on long branch support for the kernel.

The kernel support for "branch long" emulation doesn't exist yet.
Patch welcome. ;-)

	--david


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