Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:02:31 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: allow errata and XIP options to be enabled without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM_STRICT |
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On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:31:34PM +0800, Xia Kaixu wrote: > With the ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM_STRICT option, it becomes much easier to > enable the ERRATA options when we know at configuration time that we > don't care about the generic case. The previous configuration makes > XIP_KERNEL option fundamentally non-MULTIPLATFORM, but it's still > valid to select it when building for !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM_STRICT and > selecting only the one machine that you want to run on.
XIP_KERNEL isn't supported on anything past ARMv5 though.
I don't like the case for errata though - we want these errata to be handled by the board firmware, not by the kernel, and we don't want to make it any easier for people to ignore that fact.
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