From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:06:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from phoenix.bawue.net ([193.7.176.60]:9679 "EHLO mail.bawue.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038660AbXA2SGe (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:06:34 +0000 Received: from lagash (intrt.mips-uk.com [194.74.144.130]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bawue.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6808DB924B; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:05:56 +0100 (CET) Received: from ths by lagash with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HBauX-0004OG-2U; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:07:21 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:07:21 +0000 To: Atsushi Nemoto Cc: macro@linux-mips.org, vagabon.xyz@gmail.com, dan@debian.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, ralf@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: RFC: Sentosa boot fix Message-ID: <20070129180720.GC13923@networkno.de> References: <20070128180807.GA18890@nevyn.them.org> <20070130.011442.21365159.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070130.011442.21365159.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Thiemo Seufer Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 13846 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ths@networkno.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:46:20 +0000 (GMT), "Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > Well, the option used to select between 64-bit and 32-bit ELF for > > building 64-bit configurations. I can see it has been changed from its > > original meaning and it now only controls whether "-mno-explicit-relocs" > > is passed to the compiler or not, which is sort of useless and certainly > > does not match the intent nor what the description says. The 64-bit > > format is now used unconditionally and you can always pass such obscure > > options to the compiler on the make's command line, so instead of this fix > > I vote for complete removal of the BUILD_ELF64 option. > > Though I do not know much about -mno-explicit-relocs, > CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64 controls -msym32 option and this is the reason of > the tweak in __pa_page_offset(). > > I thought -msym32 can not be used for 64-bit kernels which do not have > CKSEG load address, but apparently IP27 is using -msym32 with XKPHYS > load address. Hmm... IP27 kernels get objcopied to a CKSEG0 address. Thiemo