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

Christian Hildner
2003-05-14T05:29:21Z

tony.luck@intel.com schrieb:

> It will be possible to extend this patch to split text and data into
> separate sections to allow kernel text replication, but I left that
> out for now to keep this patch to the bare minimum.
>

If you plan to separate text and data of the kernel be aware of tpa only
translating data addresses and not instruction addresses. We would need
a tpa.d and tpa.i. I am wondering about the lack of "tpa.i" in the
itanium architecture design.

Christian