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Re: qustion about GDB


On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:58:12AM +0100, Jesper Skov wrote:

> james>       it seem that eCos will run in supervisor mode between OS
> james> and Applications. but I want OS running in supervisor mode and
> james> Applications running in user mode, how to change it? Will eCos
> james> support this in future?
> 
> That is unlikely to ever happen - eCos application needs to be able to
> use HAL cache and interrupt macros which cannot be used from user
> mode.

Unless you got an MMU you've got a single, global address
space, and I don't really see the benefit of running in user
mode.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com


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