Subject: Re: Revision K strongarms ...
To: RiscBSD Mailinglist <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: ct <ct@comlab.oxford.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/07/1998 19:40:27
On Thu 07 May, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> I've had an ugly thought: Hack the kernel to check,
> when it pages a page in, if the last instruction is an LDR, if so, bring
> in the next page too :) Or did someone already start implementing this,
> I can't remember... This is _so_ ugly though!

Ugly? Uglier than hacking the linker and compiler to produce dodgy code
for all our binaries? This allows _one_ binary to be fiddled to patch
the entire problem, which can easily be changed back for non-broken SA's.
Sounds like a much nicer solution! Go for it, start coding Neil!

regards, ct "supportive, if unhelpful"