On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 17:14, Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
>
> CC: Hesham
> CC: devel
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 6:34 AM Rajiv Vaidyanathan
> <rajiv.vaidyanath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Gedare,
> >
> > Thank you for providing information regarding the project. For risk-v MMU 
> > support, will I require to have hardware?
> >
> That's a good question. I don't know if the current risc-v simulators
> support the risc-v mmu. maybe, another expert could advise. I have
> CC'd someone with experience in both risc-v and memory protection.
>
Yes, both Spike and QEMU have MMU and PMP support.

> Let's keep technical discussions on the mailing list. Thanks.
>
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Rajiv
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 21:54, Gedare Bloom <ged...@rtems.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Rajiv,
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:40 AM Rajiv Vaidyanathan
> >> <rajiv.vaidyanath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello RTEMS community,
> >> >
> >> > I am interested in the ticket: Memory protection. I saw that this topic 
> >> > has been pursued a few times in GSoC. It would be great if someone can 
> >> > let me know the current status of this project and guide me about what 
> >> > are the contributions that can be done this year.
> >> >
> >> Yes, this is a frequently attempted project that slowly makes progress
> >> over time. I think that Utkarsh has gotten somewhat close to a
> >> workable solution, but there were some design flaws in his approach
> >> for task stack protection (mainly, iterating over all the tasks) that
> >> are still lingering.
> >>
> >> There could be enough work here to pick up from his progress. The
> >> major issue would be figuring out what  the final state of his code is
> >> in, and to dig in to the design and implementation details to write a
> >> concrete proposal how to bring task stack protection to a production
> >> state. There may be other directions to consider as well, such as
> >> improving the risc-v MMU support perhaps.
> >>
> >> > Thanks and regards,
> >> > Rajiv
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