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

[Mike Frysinger]

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