Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:55:30 +0800 | From | Geoffrey Lee <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] [arm] support older plebs |
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:38:43PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:13:58AM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote: > > The PLEB is a SA-1100-based ARM computer developed at CSE at the > > University of New South Wales. I have discovered some of the earlier > > models would not set register 1 properly, which was required for Linux > > to boot. This was inside their (very old) kernel tree but which they > > never submitted for inclusion (?) It is a Photon1 with catapult > > bootloader combination. > > I've been killing these - people should really be passing the right > value of r1 to the kernel. Think what happens when 200 different > machine types add these 3 lines. >
I totally agree that it is wrong not to set r1.
Thank goodness that in 2.4.x not many arm boards need this hack :)
Anyway, inside the (very old) pleb kernel tree, it was marked as a "hack".
> A saner solution would be to define this appropriately if we're only > being built for one platform. >
Yes. That sounds good.
-- G. -- char p[] = "\xeb\x1f\x5e\x89\x76\x08\x31\xc0\x88\x46\x07\x89\x46\x0c\xb0\x0b" "\x89\xf3\x8d\x4e\x08\x8d\x56\x0c\xcd\x80\x31\xdb\x89\xd8\x40\xcd" "\x80\xe8\xdc\xff\xff\xff/bin/sh";
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