On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, Pete Popov wrote: > In arch/mips/kernel/head.S, there is this code in kernel_entry: > > la t0, _edata > sw zero, (t0) > > What guarantees that edata will be word aligned? I don't see a .ALIGN > directive in the ld.script so is it safe to assume that edata will > always be at least word aligned? I've linked into the kernel a very > large ramdisk, and edata ends up being an odd address, causing a cpu > fault. This was fixed between revs 1.4 and 1.5 in cvs @ oss.sgi.com -Justin
