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The kernel runs in M-mode without using page tables, and thus can't run bare metal without help from additional firmware. Most of the patch is just stubbing out code not needed without page tables, but there is an interesting detail in the signals implementation: - The normal RISC-V syscall ABI only implements rt_sigreturn as VDSO entry point, but the ELF VDSO is not supported for nommu Linux. We instead copy the code to call the syscall onto the stack. In addition to enabling the nommu code a new defconfig for a small kernel image that can run in nommu mode on qemu is also provided, to run a kernel in qemu you can use the following command line: qemu-system-riscv64 -smp 2 -m 64 -machine virt -nographic \ -kernel arch/riscv/boot/loader \ -drive file=rootfs.ext2,format=raw,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 Contains contributions from Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org> [paul.walmsley@sifive.com: updated to apply; add CONFIG_MMU guards around PCI_IOBASE definition to fix build issues; fixed checkpatch issues; move the PCI_IO_* and VMEMMAP address space macros along with the others; resolve sparse warning] Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.