[LV] [LV-k25-commit] Linux for the VAX architecture: Changes to 'vax4linus'

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sat, 2006-04-08 12:38:15 +0800, Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie> wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/vax/boot/head.S b/arch/vax/boot/head.S
> > index 3861e3a..bf59290 100644
> > --- a/arch/vax/boot/head.S
> > +++ b/arch/vax/boot/head.S
> ...
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Prepare to fix some of the Machine Vector pointers to
> > +	 * point to physical memory (instead of virtual addresses) because
> > +	 * we haven't yet enabled mapping, but want to use the function
> > +	 * pointers (eg. to print something.)
> > +	 */
> > +	movl	mv, %r10		/* R10 = &mv */
> > +	moval	start, %r8		/* R8 = &start */
> 
> That comment should be R10 = mv.

Like this?

diff --git a/arch/vax/boot/head.S b/arch/vax/boot/head.S
index bf59290..528967a 100644
--- a/arch/vax/boot/head.S
+++ b/arch/vax/boot/head.S
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ codestart:
 	 * we haven't yet enabled mapping, but want to use the function
 	 * pointers (eg. to print something.)
 	 */
-	movl	mv, %r10		/* R10 = &mv */
+	movl	mv, %r10		/* R10 = mv (which holds a pointer to
+					   the actual struct mv in use. */
 	moval	start, %r8		/* R8 = &start */
 
 	/*


...or shall I pull an alternative patch from your repo? :-)  (In the
meantime I've also learned that it's better so use ssh+git instead of
rsync'ing the whole remote repo...)

MfG, JBG

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