Subject: Re: Relevance of ARM merge (was: Re: port-arm26 and port-arm32
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/15/2001 12:03:23
>swindellsr@genrad.com said:
>> My only request would be to keep the load address of elf binaries as
>> low in VM as possible. 

>What do you call low?  The current load address is 0x8000, and I think 
>that is unlikely to change (it has to be a multiple of this on arm26).

Keeping the load address at 0x8000 is fine.

I'm still keen to try playing with the process ID register feature
that is on the SA-1110 and Xscale processors.

I know you said it would need everything to be compiled as PIC, but
I'm not convinced. There is a much more extensive description of the
mechanism in the 80200 Developer's Manual.

Robert