From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:22:50 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] settings AR.k0 to ia64_iobase is wrong? 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 >>>>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:57:09 -0700, "Dong Wei" said: Dong> AR.k0 contains the virtual address that SAL uses for the IO Dong> Port Base. The SAL spec asks the OSes not to change this Dong> value until the IVAs are taken over. The reason for this is Dong> that some implementation of SAL contains the x86 BIOS code. Yup. We don't violate this assumption as we switch the IVA long before we touch AR.k0. --david