On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux Admin wrote:
> Erik Mouw writes:
> > This has something to do with the recent changes in modutils+kernel
> > because of the security hole in modprobe. IIRC, you have to upgrade to
> > the latest kernel (test11-rmk2) and the latest modutils (check out
> > Documentation/Changes).
>
> Nothing to do with modutils. There is currently a test in fault-armv.c
> to detect mis-reported alignment faults on the ARM720 core. The test in
> previous kernels was a little over-zealous in that if you did an ldrb
> to a page which wasn't in core, and the ldrb was misaligned, it would
> spit out this complaint.
Awww. Wrong guess :-( It looked a lot like the argument you had with
Keith Owens on linux-kernel. Thanks for explaining.
Erik
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