[PATCH 11/12] ppc64: Move fwnmi vectors into trampoline area

Milton Miller miltonm at bga.com
Tue Aug 30 17:39:15 EST 2005


On Aug 30, 2005, at 2:28 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:22, Milton Miller wrote:
> As an aside, if we do reuse the same address for the second kernel, is 
> there
> any chance we can be broken by fwmni vectors firing before the second 
> kernel
> is ready for them?
>
Probably, and by not using them there is probably a non-zero chance
that during this window the old kernel's routines would be broken.

milton




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