[PATCH 02/17] bsp/arm: Separate setup for translation table

Chris Johns chrisj at rtems.org
Thu Feb 27 07:39:26 UTC 2014


On 27/02/2014 6:19 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 2014-02-27 07:15, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 02/26/2014 08:03 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>> Perhaps the function should be split in two:
>>> arm_cp15_setup_translation_table()
>>
>> I for one, do find this function's name insufficiently
>> descriptive/self-explanatory.
>>
>> What kind of translation does it perform? IRQ-No->IRQ-vector-table-index,
>> utf8->ANSI, Suaheli->Greek?
>
> If you know the ARM architecture, then the names are self-explanatory.
> If you don't know the ARM architecture, then don't look at this file.
>

Sebastian, this was not needed. A simple explanation is all that is 
needed, such as the Coprocessor 15 manages the MMU and related bits and 
pieces.

Not everyone gets the pleasure of reading ARM manuals. ;)

Chris



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