From: arnd@arndb•de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: nommu: re-enable use of vexpress without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:43:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201301091843.48942.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357755328-17075-1-git-send-email-jonathan.austin@arm.com>
On Wednesday 09 January 2013, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>
>
> Since 617276307cd4c ("ARM: vexpress: convert to multi-platform") it has
> been impossible to select ARCH_VEXPRESS without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM.
>
> ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM doesn't make sense for NOMMU targets, not least
> because of the need to hard-code the memory map. However, it should
> still be possible to run NOMMU kernels on top of the Versatile Express
> by selecting it as the only platform.
>
> This patch creates a shim ARCH_VEXPRESS_NOMMU config option in the 'choice'
> for "ARM system type" to make this possible again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm•com>
> CC: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic•net>
> CC: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
> ---
>
> Arnd and Nicolas: I've removed your acks as I've changed the location
> of the new block (as Nicolas suggested) and ever so slightly tweaked
> the name of the new option.
The patch is still good. Generally you can leave an Ack when doing
small changes but leaving the patch conceptually the same.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
On a related topic, I still think we should fix ARCH_MULTI_V7 not
to select ARCH_VEXPRESS unconditionally and come up with a better
way to avoid having an empty platform list to make 'allnoconfig'
still work.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 18:15 [PATCH] ARM: nommu: re-enable use of vexpress without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM Jonathan Austin
2013-01-09 18:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-09 18:41 ` Will Deacon
2013-01-09 19:17 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Austin
2013-01-09 18:43 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2013-01-09 18:54 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-09 20:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-09 20:39 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-09 20:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-01-10 3:51 ` Rob Herring
2013-01-10 10:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-10 13:20 ` Christopher Covington
2013-01-10 13:45 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-01-09 21:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-09 21:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-09 21:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-01-09 21:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-01-09 22:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
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