On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:32:15PM -0500, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> > Yes. I already did this in my private source for another, MIPS64 related
> > reason.
>
> OK, thanks. I think that also alleviates the need for that ALIGN at the end
> of head.S, plus we can get rid of the .text just above there in head.S,
> right? BTW, is there some historical reason for that .text?
Probably it exists because in '94 when I started with Linux/MIPS i386 had
it in .text or so. Iff there ever was a real reason it now rests in peace.
Btw, take a look at arch/mips64/kernel/head.S which looks much cleaner than
what we currently have for the 32-bit kernel. That head.S was definately
the single most ugly thing we had in the kernel. It's all gone now; the
TLB exception handlers and the CPU detection code is now in other files;
the later has been rewritten to C.
Ralf
