On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > 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. I'm afraid, I didn't find any code which does what you're describing here. But in arch/mips/mm/init.c is function setup_zero_pages which allocates first (or first eight if CPU has VCE) page(s). Does it do the trick? ladis
