Re: [PATCH] wire up support for the Alpha architecture

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:39:16PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 04:09:52PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
>  > Crikey, Alpha's syscall table is a right mess.
> 
> I don't know anything about alpha, but does the kernel actually
> implement those OSF syscalls ? If not, it's unlikely we're going to
> implement them in trinity, so we could probably do the same thing we did on ia64, and
> 
> #define SYSCALL_OFFSET 300 and skip all those ni_syscall entries.
> 
> Or am I missing something ?

Well, fork() is still syscall number 2, for example. I don't think we can
tidy this up with a simple offset unfortunately :(

Will