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Re: Where is my stack ?! (for my i386)
- To: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Where is my stack ?! (for my i386)
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 05:06:12 +0100
- CC: "Ecos-List (E-mail)" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <5AF611D83988D4118ACF00E0B10400540557D9@mr-intranet.sdesigns.net>
Fabrice Gautier wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Larmour [mailto:jlarmour@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 7:20 PM
> > To: Fabrice Gautier
> > Cc: Ecos-List (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] Where is my stack ?! (for my i386)
> >
> > Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> > >
> >
> > It's the startup stack. It's meant to exist very transiently
> > and then get zapped. It's size should be configurable, but it's no big
> > deal if it is discarded later. On some archs the interrupt stack is used
> as
> > the startup stack.
>
> Well, it doesn't seem so transient to me. In fact, at least for the x86, as
> long as there is no threads, there is only one stack, this one.
> So Redboot uses this stack, the standalone stub too.
True in those cases - I didn't realise you were specifically talking about
those. Patches welcome ;-).
Jifl
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