Re: [PATCH -v3] flat: fix data sections alignment

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Tue Jun 02 2009 - 14:57:31 EST


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:15, Oskar Schirmer wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 17:16:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:08:02 +0900
>> Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > > The patch had a fairly shaky start and it's been unclear to me that
>> > > everyone is happy with it and has tested it.
>> > >
>> > > Âarch/arm/include/asm/flat.h   Â|  Â3 --
>> > > Âarch/blackfin/include/asm/flat.h | Â Â1
>> > > Âarch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h  Â|  Â1
>> > > Âarch/m32r/include/asm/flat.h   |  Â1
>> > > Âarch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h   |  Â1
>> > > Âarch/sh/include/asm/flat.h    |  Â1
>> > > Âfs/binfmt_flat.c         |  46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>> > >
>> > > I guess ARM is the major architecture amongst that lot. ÂHave Russell
>> > > and co had a decent look through this?
>> > >
>> > The problem here is that the ARM nommu people seem to have disappeared
>> > shortly after getting their changes merged. I see no activity within the
>> > kernel for ARM nommu since 2006.
>>
>> heh, OK. ÂOskar touched it last, so he's now ARM nommu maintainer.
>
> Well, I'ld need some test device for that purpose.
> Someone around who can provide one?

seems a bit odd for a maintainer to not have any hardware ... at any
rate, dont you have an ARM system ? cant you just disable support for
the MMU ?
-mike
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