From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Kumar Gala <galak@freescale.com>,
linuxppc64-dev <linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: zero out BSS for all platforms
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:30:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051011093040.GA5362@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129016771.17365.198.camel@gaston>
On Tue, Oct 11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:51 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > We need to ensure that the BSS is zeroed out for all platforms.
> > Currently only prom_init.c was clearlying out the BSS which only works
> > for PPC_OF platforms.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar K. Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
>
> You need to make absolutely certain that we have not written anything to
> the bss yet though... Is that the case ? I usually prefer doing the
> zero'ing in assembly :)
early_init is called so early, its almost like asm code.
--
short story of a lazy sysadmin:
alias appserv=wotan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 19:51 [PATCH] powerpc: zero out BSS for all platforms Kumar Gala
2005-10-11 7:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-11 9:30 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2005-10-11 9:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-11 7:47 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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