[PATCH, nios2] Nios2 Linux emulation (for 2.24)
Sandra Loosemore
sandra@codesourcery.com
Mon Nov 18 16:28:00 GMT 2013
On 11/18/2013 02:57 AM, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
> Hi Sandra,
>
> As I told you earlier in the internal list, I'm shifting the start of
> the .text location by one page on Nios2 Linux; I'm trying to not touch
> the bare-metal nios2-elf config, so the logical thing to do is to
> separate the emulations.
This is OK, but for the public record, can you explain more about the
motivation for doing this? From what I recall of our internal
discussion, it is because the new Linux kernel ABI needs to map some
additional system calls at a fixed address, but I'm not able to find the
thread in my mailbox. :-(
-Sandra
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