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On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 11:30:03AM -0700, christoph wrote:
> > Move syscall table, timer_hpet and the boot_cpu_data into the "mostly_readonly" section.
> 
> the syscall table should be completely readonly.

Why was it in .data in the first place? There must be some reason why it 
was writable?