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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] FRV: linking error?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:14:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220131442.GA18790@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19148.1203512465@redhat.com>

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:01:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > being see over vmlinux.lds for FRV architecture I found the string:
> > 
> > 	. = ALIGN(4096);
> > 	.data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
> > 
> > though the PAGE_SIZE is 16K. Can't figure out why is that...
> > Do you have a few spare minutes to explain, please?
> 
> Ummm...  Good question.  Probably a legacy thing.  I think the .data.idt
> section is also an x86-only thing and should be dispensed with for FRV.
> Leastways, the section has nothing in it according to the link map.

A quick grep agree with you.
I see it used only in x86 in traps_32 for the F0 0F bug.
It exist in several .lds files - including frv.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-18 20:03 [QUESTION] FRV: linking error? Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-20 13:01 ` David Howells
2008-02-20 13:14   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-02-20 17:51     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-20 18:13       ` David Howells
2008-02-20 18:15         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-20 19:19           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-20 19:21             ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-20 17:52   ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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