Re: check MMU state

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Saturday 05 April 2003 17:24, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 18:15, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 April 2003 16:49, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > Is there a clean way to check, if the MMU is enabled on kernel entry
> > > > ? I have to port Linux to a PMC-module, where the bootloader code
> > > > should not be changed.
> > >
> > > The kernel entry can cope with both cases, provided that early_init
> > > properly returns the physical address where the kernel is loaded,
> > > regardless of the translations setup by the bootloader. Also, the
> > > kernel has to be contiguous in physical memory.
> >
> > I don't reach early_init. The CPU is a 860 and I'm using 2.4.20-ben8. I
> > get lost in initial_mmu. If I turn off the mmu before "bl initial_mmu"
> > everything is fine.
>
> Ah well, I was talking about the "common" CPU case (CONFIG_6xx), I don't
> know about 8xx but since the first thing the code  in head_8xx.S does is
> "tlbia", I think you are in a bad situation running that with
> translation enabled and no vectors around to handle the TLB miss...
>
> For machines without BATs, I tend to think that a bootloader loading
> you with MMU on shall be shot. What I'd suggest is that you hack a piggy
> back loader in the zImage wrapper that shuts MMU off before entering the
> kernel. If you _have_ to run vmlinux as is, then stuff a bl to some code
> to disable the MMU before reaching initial_mmu in head_8xx.S
I have done this already, but just wanted to know, if there is a way to check
the mmu-state in case that the bootloader code is corrected some day.

--
Thomas
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