Re: [rtl] rtLinux on MPC 8260

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:43:01PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> But: the problem I ran into is a DESIGN problem: the RT-Linux  module
> tries  to write to low kernel memory, which is write-protected on the
> PPC. It's  trivial  to  work  around  that  and  make  kernel  memory
> writable.  But  I  guess  the  kernel  text pages are read-only for a
> reason.
> 
> That means the design of RT-Linux is incompatible with the design  of
> the PPC Linux kernel. Given the fact that I just started to look into

I haven't looked at the PPC 8xx design
recently, but we are perfectly happy on 750s and G4s.

Cort is moving house and trying to finish something, so he should respond
in a bit. 

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