Re: Incremental Linking

2012-05-28 Thread Jim Cromie
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Sarbojit Ganguly unixman.linux...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Dave, I tried to explain this feature (no doubt you have explain it perfectly) but he is looking for _how_ kernel module gets loaded and somehow (I wonder how!) dubs the entire process as incremental

Re: Finding the interrupt vector of a given IRQ

2012-05-28 Thread richard -rw- weinberger
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Mark Farnell mark.farn...@gmail.com wrote: This is for an assignment, where the student needs to write an interrupt handler. Since the OS is run on a virtual machine,  I need to find a way to trigger the IRQ to let the students' interrupt handler to handle

Faking SD-Card insertion/removel

2012-05-28 Thread sougata santra
I am new to linux device-drivers. I am trying to fake add, remove sd cards while they are mounted. For systems where sd card controller is connected to PCI bus. I can use fakephp to remove the controller itself. Can similar thing be done with mmc bus_type. So that I can fake card addition and

cache policy of arm mmu

2012-05-28 Thread Jacky lin
Hi all, I found that the cache policy in after ARMv6 is always set as writeback mode in mmu.c. static int __init early_cachepolicy(char *p) { ... if (cpu_architecture() = CPU_ARCH_ARMv6) { printk(KERN_WARNING Only cachepolicy=writeback supported on ARMv6 and later\n);

Re: cache policy of arm mmu

2012-05-28 Thread Cunsuo Guo
Hi Jacky, I think the information of printk has already tell us the reason. 2012/5/29 Jacky lin h.t.ja...@gmail.com: Hi all, I found that the cache policy in after ARMv6 is always set as writeback mode in mmu.c. static int __init early_cachepolicy(char *p) { ... if

Re: cache policy of arm mmu

2012-05-28 Thread h.t.ja...@gmail.com
Hi Cunsuo, Thanks for you prompt reply. But I'm just wondering why the other policies(such as writethrough) are abandoned, does anyone know the architecture difference? Cheers, Jacky Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Cunsuo Guo cunsuo@gmail.com To: Jacky lin

Re: Finding the interrupt vector of a given IRQ

2012-05-28 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi.. On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Mark Farnell mark.farn...@gmail.com wrote: This is for an assignment, where the student needs to write an interrupt handler. Since the OS is run on a virtual machine,  I need to find a way to trigger the IRQ to let the students' interrupt handler to