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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Stanislaw Skowronek <sskowron@ET.PUT.Poznan.PL>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 32-bit ABI
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 09:38:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040424073802.GA25515@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10404240927450.13336-100000@helios.et.put.poznan.pl>

On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:31:14AM +0200, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote:

> > So there is no relation at all to modules.  You btw. can load 64-bit ELF
> > modules into a kernel which was built using above trick as 32-bit ELF.
> > That's necessary because modules are currently allocated through vmalloc
> > which allocates space in XKSEG.
> 
> Ah, so it's like that. Great. Is the ELF64 support still not correct?

No, it's supposed to be working now.

> > > I have changed it to 64-bit abi in my Octane kernel, because it won't even
> > > compile otherwise. I've got gcc 3.3.2, gas 2.14.
> > Octane has no memory at all in CKSEG0?
> 
> Well, as far as I know, and I'm probably right, it _does_ have some memory
> there. A whopping 16 kilobytes of memory mirrored by the HEART to allow
> placing exception vectors there (what a weird idea).

That's what the processor expects.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-24  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-23  8:02 MC Parity Error Florian Lohoff
2004-04-23 13:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-23 16:45   ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-23 17:11     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-23 20:43       ` Dominic Sweetman
2004-04-23 21:06         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  6:28       ` 32-bit ABI Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  7:09         ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24  7:17         ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  7:31           ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  7:38             ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-04-24  7:46               ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  7:51                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  7:55                   ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  8:07                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  8:14                       ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  8:18                       ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  8:23                         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  8:26                           ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  8:49                             ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  8:14                 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  8:17                   ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  8:26                     ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24  7:37           ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-04-24  7:18         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-04-24  7:34           ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  7:44             ` Ralf Baechle
2004-04-24  7:47               ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2004-04-24  7:48             ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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