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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wire up support for the Alpha architecture
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:46:58 -0400
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To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>, "trinity@vger.kernel.org" <trinity@vger.kernel.org>

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:43:39PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
 > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:39:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:09:52PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > Crikey, Alpha's syscall table is a right mess.
 > > 
 > > I don't know anything about alpha, but does the kernel actually
 > > implement those OSF syscalls ? If not, it's unlikely we're going to
 > > implement them in trinity, so we could probably do the same thing we did on ia64, and
 > > 
 > > #define SYSCALL_OFFSET 300 and skip all those ni_syscall entries.
 > > 
 > > Or am I missing something ?
 > 
 > Well, fork() is still syscall number 2, for example. I don't think we can
 > tidy this up with a simple offset unfortunately :(

Ah, I missed that. Now I see why you said it was a mess. Ok, I'll apply your patch as is.

thanks,

	Dave