[PATCH] iSeries build with newer assemblers and compilers

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:51:15PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch makes iSeries build with the newer assemblers and compilers.
> We had a hack to allow us to move xLparMap out of head.S but that
> required a horrible bit of inline assembler in LparData.c.  When I
> upgraded Debian unstable in order to use their biarch compiler, even that
> hack broke.  This patch works around the whole compiler/assembler mess by
> patching the address we care about into the vmlinux after it is built.

Why don't you move it back to head.S?  Sure it was ugly, but the
previous and new workaround are even worse.