Subject: Re: change arm link address?
To: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 10/23/2003 11:13:18
> Hi,
> 
> Just browsing over the pmap code, and noticed this comment:
>  *     o If the vector_page is at 0x00000000 instead of 0xffff0000, then
>  *       MP systems will lose big-time because of the MMU domain hack.
>  *       The only way this can be solved (apart from moving the vector
>  *       page to 0xffff0000) is to reserve the first 1MB of user address
>  *       space for kernel use only. This would require re-linking all
>  *       applications so that the text section starts above this 1MB
>  *       boundary.
> 
> I know that currently we don't do MP on arm, there was some work done to
> support hydra MP, and long term I believe that arch v6 chips will
> support SMP (although I'd guess they can remap the vector table)
> 
> However I was wondering if NetBSD 2.0 would be a good day time to do
> this?
> 
> Chris
> 

I think the best time to do it is when we switch to the AAPCS (as it's now 
called).

R.