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Re: Is Redboot run in supervisor mode?


Grant Edwards wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:43:20AM -0000, Qiang Huang wrote:


When the platform is configured as Redboot startup and load the ecos app
into RAM for debugging, what mode is redboot run in? when loading a ecos app
(by redboot) , what is the starting mode of the ecos app(e.g. when comes to
the entry point of the ecos app: reset_vector) Thanks a lot

Depends on the architecture.  It's generally in some sort of
system/supervisor mode.
I believe Qiang is on ARM in which case it's supervisor (SVC) mode for everything. Even on interrupts we switch to SVC mode as soon as we can.

Jifl
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