From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:30943 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20039415AbXB1Tc1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:27 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1SJWH08021941; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:17 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l1SJWGWG021940; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:16 GMT Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:16 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: Marc St-Jean , Andrew Sharp , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mips: PMC MSP71xx mips common Message-ID: <20070228193216.GB16562@linux-mips.org> References: <45E465C1.50408@pmc-sierra.com> <20070227173841.GD12230@networkno.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070227173841.GD12230@networkno.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 14282 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:38:41PM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Something like > > #if LOADADDR == 0xffffffff80000000 > .fill 0x400 > #endif > > but by defining an appropriate name in arch/mips/Makefile instead of > externalizing the load-y/LOADADDR there. Basically a good idea but it will fail for 64-bit kernels so the test would need to be extended to cover XKPHYS as well. Also R2 processors which have the c0_ebase registers do no need to reserve space for exception handlers as they can easily move them elsewhere. Ralf