[RFC] arm : ALIGNMENT_TRAP and MTD
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jun 27 09:30:31 EDT 2006
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 21:22 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> Is there a damn good reason, why the NOMMMU stuff cannot have this
> active ? If it enables code which is not feasible on NOMMU there are
> ways to solve such problems quite elegant.
>
> It's not a MTD problem, it's an ARM specific requirement.
No, it isn't. ARM was just one of the first CPUs where we really _can't_
fix up alignment faults. FR-V is another. It's often done in the MMU, so
there's a strong correlation with uCLinux architectures -- and now we've
merged uCLinux, it's a problem we should really address properly.
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dwmw2
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