[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH][FOR 1.3.4] 85xx: Don't move interrupt vector to low memory

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Aug 6 22:17:56 CEST 2008


In message <9D199630-11FA-4028-8EE6-CBC59F6F67A0 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> > Good point. Why don't we factor this out and make it common code for
> > all PPC?
> 
> Because the relocation is specific to the various interrupt types.   
> Book-E will need different code for handing IVPR/IVORs than classic.

Umm... the exception code itself may be different, but does this imply
that the code used to copy / relocate the exception handlers to low
mem must be different, too?

> > Maybe. But then, these can use exception vectors at low mem, too,
> > right?
> 
> They can, but it has to be setup.

What is Linux doing?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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