Re: Reg Sparc memory addresses

Shanti Katta (katta@csee.wvu.edu)
26 Sep 2002 13:54:57 -0400


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:56, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:01:15PM -0400, Shanti Katta wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I compiled user-mode-linux kernel on Ultrasparc with load address set to
> > 00000000e0000000. But, when I try to debug the kernel, it just says
> > cannot access memory at address 0xa00020b0.
> > This error message remains the same no matter what I change the load
> > address to. Can anyone guide me on valid memory addresses for userspace
> > on Sparc? and how much different is that from x86 architecture?
>
> You compiled it on ultrasparc, but I hope you compiled it as a "sparc"
> target and not "sparc64".

I compiled UML as "sparc64".


> I'm not familiar with how UML runs in user space, but I suspect it needs
> to think it is sparc and not sparc64 for it to run in 32bit sparc
> userspace (which is what ultrasparc runs at for most cases).
>
So, I guess I need to compile UML as "sparc" target and debug it. I am
not sure how much of UML code runs in kernelspace and how much in
userspace. So, do I need to compile only the userspace code for UML as
"sparc" target or the whole of UML?

-Shanti

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