Am Sonntag, 2. Juni 2002 01:16 schrieben Sie:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 02:07, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > The problem is that this cannot simply work, because a filesystem may be
> > mounted by nfs.
>
> How is this a problem? You simply need to bring the driver up before you
> remount the nfs filesystem. If you assume that your firmware is on that
> filesystem, then you couldn't have mounted it in the first place.
>
> What am I missing here?
Paging. As soon as user space is running, dirty pages may be written out.
And in order to run a user space firmware loader, user space must
be functional, or am I overlooking something?
Thus as soon as you do something that allocates memory from user
space, you may deadlock IMHO.
Regards
Oliver
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