Re: RISC-V nommu support v2

[Vladimir Murzin]

Hi,

On 6/24/19 6:42 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> below is a series to support nommu mode on RISC-V.  For now this series
> just works under qemu with the qemu-virt platform, but Damien has also
> been able to get kernel based on this tree with additional driver hacks
> to work on the Kendryte KD210, but that will take a while to cleanup
> an upstream.
> 
> To be useful this series also require the RISC-V binfmt_flat support,
> which I've sent out separately.
> 
> A branch that includes this series and the binfmt_flat support is
> available here:
> 
>     git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/riscv.git riscv-nommu.2
> 
> Gitweb:
> 
>     http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/riscv.git/shortlog/refs/heads/riscv-nommu.2
> 
> I've also pushed out a builtroot branch that can build a RISC-V nommu
> root filesystem here:
> 
>    git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/buildroot.git riscv-nommu.2
> 
> Gitweb:
> 
>    http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/buildroot.git/shortlog/refs/heads/riscv-nommu.2
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - fixes so that a kernel with this series still work on builds with an
>    IOMMU
>  - small clint cleanups
>  - the binfmt_flat base and buildroot now don't put arguments on the stack
> 
> 

Since you are using binfmt_flat which is kind of 32-bit only I was expecting to see
CONFIG_COMPAT (or something similar to that, like ILP32) enabled, yet I could not
find it.

I do not know much about RISC-V architecture, so it is why I'm wondering how you deal
with that?

Cheers
Vladimir