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Re: [RFA/testcase] Enable overlays.exp only for sim target
I've committed the following patch. Thank you.
Kei Sakamoto
Michael Snyder wrote:
> Kei Sakamoto wrote:
> >>I guess I've never run this test on d10v hardware, but
> >>I used to run it on m32r hardware. Why would it only
> >>work on the sim?
> >
> > I'm sorry. I forgot about the remote debug environment.
> > The overlay test should work on evaluation boards and
> > emulators too.
> >
> >>Matter of fact, why shouldn't it work just about anywhere?
> >>It doesn't have any hardware dependency, just a linker script.
> >
> > It seems that Linux kernel can't load overlaid programs
> > into memory because VMA and LMA of overlaid
> > sections are different. So overlays.exp is not available on
> > the Linux.
> >
> > I revised the patch file. It disables overlays.exp if target is Linux.
> >
> > Is this OK?
>
> Yes, this is great -- thanks.