-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Kishore A K wrote: | Hi, | | I Dont exactly know how it does it. But then these | systems must have some method (exception) of | telling the kernel that the address on the bus is invalid. |
Why?
| On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:26:16 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu | <mandeep_sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | |> |>but what happens on MMU-less systems where evry address is directly |>mapped to phy. addr.? |>
Nothing, I imagine. NULL pointer accesses will not be caught.
Ross -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
iD8DBQFBnP109bR4xmappRARAlTXAJ9uatJ5IYlygbXvWGBTSMeMgPT5OwCglvJT qFMn6N4YlCLmkPurPTX0OH4= =J22s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/