Re: 64-bit jiffies, a better solution take 2

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sat, 11 May 2002 09:29:35 +0100


On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:42:46PM -0700, george anzinger wrote:
> diff -urP -I \$Id:.*Exp \$ -X /usr/src/patch.exclude linux-2.5.14-org/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in
> --- linux-2.5.14-org/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in Tue May 7 15:59:35 2002
> +++ linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armo.lds.in Fri May 10 17:07:31 2002
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> */
> OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
> ENTRY(stext)
> +jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
> SECTIONS
> {
> . = TEXTADDR;
> diff -urP -I \$Id:.*Exp \$ -X /usr/src/patch.exclude linux-2.5.14-org/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in
> --- linux-2.5.14-org/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in Tue May 7 15:59:35 2002
> +++ linux/arch/arm/vmlinux-armv.lds.in Fri May 10 17:07:34 2002
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
> */
> OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
> ENTRY(stext)
> +jiffies = jiffies_64 + 4;
> SECTIONS
> {
> . = TEXTADDR;

Eurgh. This seems to be a popular misconception. What makes you think
ARM is big endian, or was it just a guess?

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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