Re: [PATCH]: linux-2.5.42uc1 (MMU-less support)

[Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>]

Hi Miles,

Miles Bader wrote:

> Here's a v850 update for 2.5.42uc1.


I have rolled this into, linux-2.5.43uc0.
I have also removed the gdb patches under arch/v850.


> I addressed two of Christoph Hellwig's concerns, (1) vmlinux.lds.S
> [barf] and (2) the asm-constant generation mechanism.
> 
> He also complained about using the MD driver &c instead of initrd, but
> I'm not sure what do about that -- it'd be nice to use a `standard'
> solution, but when I originally looked at the initrd stuff, it seemed
> very convoluted and confusing; since earlier lkml discussion had pointed
> to using MD as the nearest thing to the old blkmem device, that seemed
> like the way to go.


I very much like using a specific MTD map driver. I haven't carried
my initrd patches through to the 2.5 code yet. But it was pretty
simple to do for 2.4...

Regards
Greg


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