Re: Getting physical addresses of mmap'd pages from userspace

2008-10-10 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Tom Cooksey
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 Is there any way to get the physical address of mlock()'d memory from 
 userspace?

Why do you need this information ?

Bart.
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Re: prevalence of C++ in embedded linux?

2008-07-29 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Leisner, Martin
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 If you're embedded device has a window system, than a language like C++
 is fine...But...

C++ is suited for much more than just windowing systems. A good
example is the GOLD project, a linker for ELF files. GOLD is a rewrite
of the GNU linker (ld). See also
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/04/gold-google-releases-new-and-improved.html.

Bart.
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Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)

2008-06-13 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
 meooowww!  :-)  but at the risk of dragging this even further
 off-topic, i am *constantly* asked by people how to set up makefiles
 for their software project, and what would be nice is a small
 collection of examples of a makefile (or makefiles) done *right*.  as
 in, properly recursive, supports cross-compiling without having to
 remove your left nad, etc, etc.
...

Please read the essay Recursive Make Considered Harmful
(http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/rmch/).

Bart.
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