RE: [uClinux-dev] Is supervisor/user mode is necessary for uCLinu x ?

From: Zhang Hong-W17904 (H.Zhang@motorola.com)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 02:34:22 EST


Does the user program run from flash directly(text segment resides flash) or copy the code including text and data segment into ram then run from ram? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Walsh [mailto:tom@cyberiansoftware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:16 AM
> To: uclinux-dev@uClinux.org
> Subject: Re: [uClinux-dev] Is supervisor/user mode is necessary for
> uCLinux ?
> 
> 
> Zhang Hong-W17904 wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > So, what about the uClinux 2.4.X on these issues?
> > 
> 
> Guess what... You lose, the same problems exist for the 2.4 kernel in
> any processor situation in which an MMU is not available.  
> Unless... You
> wish to write copious amounts of code to simulate the operation of an
> MMU!
> 
> Get real people!  This is not mainstream computing shrunk down to the
> molecular level, this is embedded systems.  Doesn't anyone 
> know what an
> embedded system is anymore?  Granted that the lines between 
> the old 8/16
> bit hardware and the current 32 bit processors is becoming 
> blurred, but
> for the stuff that I do, having to not code my own malloc(), 
> or exec(),
> is light years away from the alternative: rolling my own proprietary
> O/S.
> 
> ...
> 
> TomW
> 
> 
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