[Skiboot] [RFC PATCH 1/4] asm/head: move unnecessary code out of head

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.ibm.com
Wed Mar 6 18:00:23 AEDT 2019


Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> writes:
> head.S should be for things that must be located in low memory, like
> boot and interrupt entry.
>
> Move some code from there into misc.S that is not called from entry
> routines. The motivation for this patch is work to run skiboot in
> virtual memory mode, which does not map head.S code. Even without that
> motivation, it's still good to keep head.S clean.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

I've taken this first patch in the series as arguably this is just a
good idea anyway and it should all "just work". So, this one patch in
the series merged to master as of 450b429feb43900da97f4d1519d886e175d43a40

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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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