[PATCH] powerpc: zero out BSS for all platforms

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 11 17:46:11 EST 2005


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 <kumar.gala at freescale.com>

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 :)

Ben.





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