From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mallick, Asit K" Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:17:28 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] Kernel long branch support Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64