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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:12:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support
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>>>>> 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