On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 09:31:14AM +0200, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote: > > So there is no relation at all to modules. You btw. can load 64-bit ELF > > modules into a kernel which was built using above trick as 32-bit ELF. > > That's necessary because modules are currently allocated through vmalloc > > which allocates space in XKSEG. > > Ah, so it's like that. Great. Is the ELF64 support still not correct? No, it's supposed to be working now. > > > I have changed it to 64-bit abi in my Octane kernel, because it won't even > > > compile otherwise. I've got gcc 3.3.2, gas 2.14. > > Octane has no memory at all in CKSEG0? > > Well, as far as I know, and I'm probably right, it _does_ have some memory > there. A whopping 16 kilobytes of memory mirrored by the HEART to allow > placing exception vectors there (what a weird idea). That's what the processor expects. Ralf
