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DateFri, 14 May 2004 18:39:22 +0900
From"Hyok S. Choi" <>
SubjectRe: MMUless CPU support?
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

>On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> 
>
>>Hyok,
>>
>>about fork and mmap syscalls on uClinux:
>>
>>actually i believe it would be better to leave calls.S untouched and return
>>EINVAL or similar in the C level code...
>>BTW, if i remember correctly (it was in 97 when i've ported uClinux 2.0.xx
>>from 68000 to ARM7) mmap call was partially functionnal on ucLinux
>>(depending
>>on arguments) so
>> there is no need to scrap it from calls.S too....
>>
>>the less we touch .S file the eathier it'll be to maintain the NO-MMU
>>version
>> 
>>
>
>And you can use assembler/linker magic to alias sys_fork to
>sys_ni_syscall.
>
>Since Hyok seems to be 100% against any kind of merge, it's useless
>even talking about this though.
> 
>
Hmm, I think about the clean and well structured kind of merge. His 
comment was useful for me. :-)

I always think almost all of tricky method to cross among codes is NO 
good, for maintainer, code readers, porting guys and all.
I like Vadim's method.

Regards,
Hyok
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