Re: MMUless CPU support?

[Hyok S. Choi]

Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
>  
>
> > Hyok,
> >
> > about fork and mmap syscalls on uClinux:
> >
> > actually i believe it would be better to leave calls.S untouched and return
> > EINVAL or similar in the C level code...
> > BTW, if i remember correctly (it was in 97 when i've ported uClinux 2.0.xx
> > from 68000 to ARM7) mmap call was partially functionnal on ucLinux
> > (depending
> > on arguments) so
> > there is no need to scrap it from calls.S too....
> >
> > the less we touch .S file the eathier it'll be to maintain the NO-MMU
> > version
> >    
>
> And you can use assembler/linker magic to alias sys_fork to
> sys_ni_syscall.
>
> Since Hyok seems to be 100% against any kind of merge, it's useless
> even talking about this though.
>  
Hmm, I think about the clean and well structured kind of merge. His 
comment was useful for me. :-)

I always think almost all of tricky method to cross among codes is NO 
good, for maintainer, code readers, porting guys and all.
I like Vadim's method.

Regards,
Hyok
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