[Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] head.S fix for unusual load addrs

David Mosberger
2003-04-17T23:05:29Z

>>>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:50:02 -0700, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> said:

Jesse> David, is something like this ok with you? On our systems,
Jesse> elilo won't load the kernel where head.S expects it, so we
Jesse> look at the ip to figure it out.

I don't have an issue with the particular patch, but I don't like to
take new features incrementally. At the moment, the normal ia64
kernel doesn't support loading at arbitrary physical addresses. If
there is a complete patch to add such a feature, we should consider it
for inclusion.

--david