From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 12 May 2003 18:44:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.44.186.158]:45038 "EHLO orion.mvista.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 12 May 2003 18:44:10 +0100 Received: (from jsun@localhost) by orion.mvista.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4CHi8m24182; Mon, 12 May 2003 10:44:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:44:08 -0700 From: Jun Sun To: Ladislav Michl Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, jsun@mvista.com Subject: Re: memory for exception vectors Message-ID: <20030512104408.C24045@mvista.com> References: <20030512115641.F17151@ftp.linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030512115641.F17151@ftp.linux-mips.org>; from ladis@linux-mips.org on Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:56:41AM +0100 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2353 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jsun@mvista.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:56:41AM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote: > Could anyone tell me where is space for exception vectors reserved? Many boards > (for example Alchemy Pb1000, Galileo EV96100 or Galileo EV64120A) simply > registers all available RAM with add_memory_region call, but I didn't find code > which reserves first 0x200 (on most CPUs) for exceptions vectors anywhere. I'd > guess there is something obvious what I'm missing. Can you help me to see it? > Kernel only uses memory after the end of kernel image. In that sense, all memory before LOADADDR (see arch/mips/Makefile) is reserved. Jun