------- Additional Comments From rth at redhat dot com 2005-10-07 01:52 -------
Subject: Re: IA64 assembler generates bad 2.6.9 Linux kernel.
> 2) Why does the kernel care whether we use slot 1 or slot 2 here?
It's got some runtime code patching code that assumes it.
> Maybe the kernel can be fixed?
Yep. ia64_patch_imm64 and ia64_patch_imm60 can use
(insn_addr & -16) + {1,2}
instead of
insn_addr - {1,0}
when calling ia64_patch.
r~
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