Re: [patch 5/6] s390: .align 4096 statements in head.S

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Tue Jul 18 2006 - 08:49:55 EST


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 08:43 -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Hardcoading like that can cause hard to find errors. It looks like
> you wrote something in 'C' and tried to use its assembly code. You
> should know that you don't need ".fill" if you have correctly
> allocated
> data.

Huh ?!? We are talking about head.S here. That is pure assembler, no C
anywhere. It is the startup code of the kernel, and we do want to
control where things end up.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


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