linux-kernel - Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH/RFC] FDPIC: add hook for arches to customize program header parsing

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Date:	Mon, 7 Dec 2009 05:10:20 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	uClinux development list <uclinux-dev@...inux.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@...log.com>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
	David McCullough <davidm@...pgear.com>
Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] [PATCH/RFC] FDPIC: add hook for arches to customize 
	program header parsing

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:44, David Howells wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org> wrote:
>> The Blackfin port has custom program header flags/addresses for
>> automatically loading regions into the dedicated on-chip SRAM.  So add a
>> hook for ports to leverage.
>
> Now that I've ACK'd this, I feel I'm going to have to NAK it.  I'm not against
> the general concept, but:
>
>> +             do_munmap(mm, *maddr, phdr->p_memsz + *disp);
>
> There needs to be a mapping covering the SRAM region for the purposes of the
> debugger.  Do you have a chardev covering the SRAM device?  Perhaps through
> MTD?

SRAM is accessed directly by kernel/user space.  there is no device
indirection nor are there any mappings.
-mike
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