Subject: Re: RFC: Change SWI number base?
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/12/2002 23:23:56
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> The more I think about it, the more I suspect that the final stub into the
> kernel should be coded in ARM code rather than thumb code.  That makes
> this whole issue go away for the normal case, and we should stick to using
> the current technique of normally coding the SWI number in the
> instruction.

Oh good.  In that case, we'll keep the syscall protocol as-is for ELF,
except to change the SWI base to match our shiny new officially-assigned
one, OK?

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>