Re: want to clarify powerpc assembly conventions in head.S and entry.S

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 23:09:10 EST


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

ret_from_syscall for syscalls, hash_page also has a different
return to userland path, and load_up_{fpu,altivec} have their own
retturn path.
On ppc32 currently, the entry is almost always the same except for
hash_page and load_up_{fpu,altivec}

Thanks, that's exactly the information I needed.

Chris
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