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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 18:08:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] psr rt bit
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>>>>> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:20:49 -0600, Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> said:

  Mario> In head.S ipsr 'rt' bit along with other bits is set before
  Mario> rfi as the initialization goes to virtual mode. As the 'rfi'
  Mario> implicitly updates the 'psr' will that cause problems if
  Mario> 'rsc' is not in lazy mode?

Yes.

  Mario> Is it assumed that 'rsc' is in lazy mode by the time _start
  Mario> runs?

Yes.  SAL Section 3.2.5 guarantees that ar.rsc is set to "enforced
lazy mode, little-endian".

	--david