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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
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Subject: Re: How To Remove Write Protection
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:37:23 +0100
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>    I am presently porting RTLinux to MIPS Atlas board ( with 4Kc core ).
> Can you please tell me how to remove the write protection of the Linux 
> kernel (2.4.3) .
> Because I am getting the page fault when i am trying to insert the 
> Rtlinux module.

I rather doubt that write protection has anything to do with
what you are seeing.  It is far more likely that you are making
the kernel dereference an uninitialized pointer.

            Kevin K.