[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] arch/ppc/qemu: Moved exception handlers from beginning of RAM

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Wed May 28 10:02:35 CEST 2014


On 28/05/14 00:59, Alexander Graf wrote:

> On 26.05.14 23:24, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>> Do not put exception handler routines between 0x00-0xff as some OSes
>> use this area for their own purposes and can corrupt them. (In
>> particular MorphOS writes to 0x80 during boot). This patch frees up
>> this area by moving the routines that were there higher.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton at eik.bme.hu>
>
> So do you happen to have any idea why the code was written the way it
> was written? I don't feel very confident that I grasp why the original
> author did it that way.

+1.


ATB,

Mark.




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