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From: "Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:17:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205020@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590678205018@msgid-missing>

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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-04-18 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]

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