Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] ARM: allow errata and XIP options to be enabled without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM_STRICT | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:24:38 +0100 |
| |
On Tuesday 28 October 2014 14:02:31 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > 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 would really like to get some of the platforms that currently use XIP_KERNEL to use ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM in the long run. One of them is EFM32, which is ARMv7-M.
> 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.
Ok, fair enough.
Arnd
| |