Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: zero out BSS for all platforms

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:30:40 +0200

On Tue, Oct 11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:51 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > We need to ensure that the BSS is zeroed out for all platforms.
> > Currently only prom_init.c was clearlying out the BSS which only works
> > for PPC_OF platforms.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar K. Gala <[email-masked]>
> 
> You need to make absolutely certain that we have not written anything to
> the bss yet though... Is that the case ? I usually prefer doing the
> zero'ing in assembly :)

early_init is called so early, its almost like asm code.

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