On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:18:31PM -0500, David Anders wrote:
> i hate to be a pest, but i had one more question. if i have some
> assembly code to turn the mmu off (my bootloader turns it on),
What's the point of turning on the MMU in the bootloader? There is
really no need to do that, it makes the bootloader unnecessary
complicated.
> i can
> include this in the head-sa1100.S file so that when the kernel is
> uncompressed the mmu is off and ready, right?
No, I don't think we should clutter up the kernel because some
bootloaders won't obey the simple rule "kernel should be called with
MMU switched off".
Erik
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