About ARM TCM patch

[Dave Hylands]

Hi Peter,

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Peter Chen <hzpeterchen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear ML,
>
> I read the TCM patch from http://lwn.net/Articles/353032/
>
> It said:
> Code executing inside the ITCM does not "see" any MMU mappings
> and e.g. register accesses must be made to physical addresses.
>
> I am doubt it is correctly for all systems, at my SoC platform(arm1136JF,
> v6), the situation is difference.
>
> 1. After MMU open, the code running at ITCM can't see physical address for
> register.
>
> 2. After MMU open, the code can't run at physical addressed ITCM.

That's my understanding as well. Once the MMU is enabled, ALL access
go through the MMU, whether they originate from the ITCM or not.

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