Subject: Question on ARM Cortex R4 support in Linux

From: [email-masked] (Catalin Marinas)
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:53:13 +0000

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:49:18AM +0000, shiraz hashim wrote:
> We plan to use Linux on our Cortex R4 based SoC.
> Can we use the latest Linux straight away or do we
> require to add some support for it.
> 
> I went through www.linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/LinuxM3
> which describes Cortex M3 support in Linux but was not
> able to find any information on M4.

Do you mean M4 or R4 here?

> Has anybody used it on Cortex R4 based platform ?

In theory Linux support for R4 should just work (once CONFIG_MMU is
disabled). I used to test it in the past regularly but not recently.

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Catalin