Re: Any plans on MMU-less support?

["Владимир Смирнов" <mapron1@gmail.com>]

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I already using uClibc so i know that i hardly ever have fork or dynamic
linkage. It's all suitable for me.
So whats up with mmap and startup code?
I wonder on minimal working set of that all :-)


2014-03-31 0:01 GMT+09:00 Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>:

> * Smirnov Vladimir <mapron1@gmail.com> [2014-03-30 15:49:08 +0900]:
> > I wonder if MUSL have such roadmap or there is any hackish way to
> > add that support (may be some unoffitial patches).
> > My problem that i've stucked with old gcc toolchain and uClibc
> > supporting one widely used ARMv4 MMUless chip.
>
> looking at uClibc the main differences in a no-mmu system:
>
> fork is not available so related functions have to be changed/disabled
> (vfork, daemon, wordexp, forkpty, pthread_atfork)
>
> brk is not available so malloc needs to change
>
> mmap may need MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag for performance
> (and MAP_FIXED flag will fail)
>
> memory management related things may need to be changed/disabled
> (mprotect?,mlock,msync,..)
>
> for dynamic linking ldso and libc startup code may need some change
> (some targets (not arm) need fdpic or dsbt elf support)
> (others can use a shared flat binary format)
>
> pthread may need smaller default stack and more careful stack usage
>
> arm startup code needs a change according to
> http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/tree/libc/sysdeps/linux/arm/crt1.S#n179
>
> and you may need to fix various toolchain issues..
>

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