execve system call question

Sangmoon Kim dogoil at etinsys.com
Mon Mar 4 12:11:40 EST 2002


Hi Derrik Weeks,

I got the bash prompt.

> A little research says this is not the case.  As I understand it (with thanks
> to Wolfgang) Linux reserves memory space below 80000000 for user
> applications.  In my case I had my IMMR based registers mapped below this
> value, and the kernel was setting mapping for this space to virtual =
> physical, which caused my problem.  You may have the same issue with your
> serial port, it would be worth a try to move it to high memory and see if
> this resolves your problem.

I changed the hardware by some jump wire, so the serial port is now located at 0xff000000.
I'll try the virtual != physical thing with my original hardware.

Thank you for the reply!
- Sangmoon Kim -

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