Re: [Qemu-devel] Potential sparc32 MMU bug

[Paul Brook]

> > I don't know about sparc, but it's normal for writes to ROM to be
> > ignored. However by my reading the sparc bios is loaded into RAM anyway,
> > so it shouldn't matter.
>
> It definitely gets blocked by something: if I leave the the trap table
> in the .text section, the write silently fails.  If I move the trap
> table to the .data section, the write succeeds.  If I move the trap
> table over to .rodata, the write fails again.  What are you looking at
> that suggests the whole sparc bios is loaded read/write?

I was mistaken. There is a ROM area defined, it's just the elf loader doesn't 
care whether it's loading to rom or ram.

My comment about rom writes being silently ignored still applies.

Paul