Re: APs from the Kernel Summit run Linux

Russell King
2005-08-31T19:53:38Z

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:55:12PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> I'll try loading the works into another ARM
> system I have here, and see (1) if it runs as-is,
> and (2) what the disassembly shows.

You can identify ARM code quite readily - look for a large number of
32-bit words naturally aligned and grouped together whose top nibble
is 14 - ie 0xE.......

The top nibble is the conditional execution field, and 14 is "always".

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core