>I don't necessarily disagree. Using a speculative load for this seemed >a little sleazy to me. I just didn't know of any other cheap way to >test for the existence of the per-cpu area...
Perhaps look to see if ar.k3 has been set up with the physical address of the per-cpu area? You'd need to clear it early in head.S (as I'm not sure what garbage it might contain) and delay the initialization in cpu_init() until after the per-cpu area is fully set up [which might create new challenges :-)]. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
