> These patches touch up our ARM implementation and add in support for some new > features including TLS, a page for the "kernel" to install user level helper > functions, a few of those functions, and hooking in mmap2. With these patches, > I can run a new hello world I compiled which will become ARM's first > regression test. > > I wanted to send these out for review mainly because of the user level helper > page/functions. I'm mostly guessing how this page (pages?) is (are) supposed > to > work, and I'm even guessing at what the right name is. The name I'm using, > comm page, came from a post about valgrind and may be totally inaccurate. > Also, the functions I implemented are paraphrased from the Linux kernel. > Please let me know if there are any copyright concerns. They're generally very > short, but the one for cmpxchg is a little longer. My version is dumbed down > because some of the needed instructions aren't supported, so that specific one > isn't copied verbatim. If you're talking about the short blobs of hex strings, it's no big deal. Those are very short.
Out of curiosity, what are these blobs for? Are they a microcode thing? Nate _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
