From: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom•net>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard@intevation•de>,
debian-powerpc@lists•debian.org, paulus@samba•org
Subject: Re: compile quirk linux-2.6.24 (with workaround)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:10:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080205161017.GA26196@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080205093820.5918a216@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:38:20AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Taking a step back though, there will always be odd cases like this as
> we move forward. Toolchain XXX will eventually not support instruction
> YYYY which will eventually be used, etc. I'll try to make this
> specific case work because it's scope is quite limited. But this
> problem as a whole will still remain.
Worst case, if it's only a couple of instructions, they could be covered
the way we usually handle new instructions in the ISA: make a macro for
them and hand-encode them.
See real_205_{read,write}b() in arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S for
example.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-05 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-03 16:29 compile quirk linux-2.6.24 (with workaround) Bernhard Reiter
2008-02-04 9:51 ` Sven Luther
2008-02-04 10:26 ` Bernhard Reiter
2008-02-04 17:34 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-05 13:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-05 14:39 ` Sven Luther
2008-02-05 15:15 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-05 15:24 ` Grant Likely
2008-02-05 15:38 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-05 16:10 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2008-02-06 10:07 ` Bernhard Reiter
2008-02-19 2:52 ` Josh Boyer
2008-02-22 14:50 ` Bernhard Reiter
2008-02-25 11:56 ` Bernhard Reiter
2008-03-03 17:26 ` Bernhard Reiter
2008-02-04 21:01 ` Josh Boyer
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