On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:24:21PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >Compile your kernel without angelboot support (CONFIG_ANGELBOOT no set)
> >and things will run better.
> 
> Can't we get rid of this CONFIG_ANGELBOOT option?  There aren't many platforms 
> where booting from Angel is likely, and those ones can have code in head.S 
> that does
>       
>       mrs r0, cpsr
>       tst r0, #3
>       bne not_angel
>       mov r0, #0x17
>       swi 0x123456
>       [...]
> not_angel:

Sounds like a sane solution to me. Given the fact that it is only a
five instructions, we might as well include it by default.


Erik

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