[RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Feb 20 07:51:33 EST 2007


> It won't do any good, or it won't work?  I figured it would just branch to
> _zimage_start on non-SMP systems.

Well, the SPRN_CTRLF register only exist on some processors. Also,
non-IBM processors are likely to do things differently. In fact, I'm not
even sure that all POWERx processor use the bits in there the same way.

Ben.





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