[Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] head.S fix for unusual load addrs

From: David Mosberger <davidm_at_napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 2003-04-18 09:05:29
>>>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:50:02 -0700, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> said:

  Jesse> David, is something like this ok with you?  On our systems,
  Jesse> elilo won't load the kernel where head.S expects it, so we
  Jesse> look at the ip to figure it out.

I don't have an issue with the particular patch, but I don't like to
take new features incrementally.  At the moment, the normal ia64
kernel doesn't support loading at arbitrary physical addresses.  If
there is a complete patch to add such a feature, we should consider it
for inclusion.

	--david
Received on Thu Apr 17 16:07:09 2003

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