[PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: omap4: Correct definition of do_wfi() forCONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
Dave Martin
dave.martin at linaro.org
Wed Dec 8 06:05:13 EST 2010
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
<santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dave Martin [mailto:dave.martin at linaro.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 4:11 PM
>> To: Santosh Shilimkar
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Tony Lindgren; linux-
>> omap at vger.kernel.org; linaro-dev at lists.linaro.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: omap4: Correct definition of do_wfi()
>> forCONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
>> <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
>> > Dave,
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Santosh Shilimkar [mailto:santosh.shilimkar at ti.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:27 AM
>> >> To: Dave Martin
>> >> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Tony Lindgren; linux-
>> >> omap at vger.kernel.org; linaro-dev at lists.linaro.org
>> >> Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: omap4: Correct definition of
> do_wfi()
>> >> forCONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Dave Martin [mailto:dave.martin at linaro.org]
>> >> > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:21 PM
>> >> > To: Santosh Shilimkar
>> >> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org; Tony Lindgren; linux-
>> >> > omap at vger.kernel.org; linaro-dev at lists.linaro.org
>> >> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] ARM: omap4: Correct definition of
>> do_wfi()
>> >> > forCONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
>> >> >
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Santosh Shilimkar
>> >> > <santosh.shilimkar at ti.com> wrote:
>> >> > > Dave,
>> >
>> > [.....]
>> >>
>> >> > So anything inside #ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL can assume
> v7/Thumb-2
>> >> > capable (and hence reasonably new) tools.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'll follow up shortly with a patch to the generic ARM Kconfig to
>> make
>> >> > this explicit, so that ARCH_OMAP2 and THUMB2_KERNEL can't
>> accidentally
>> >> > be configured together.
>> >> >
>> >> sure
>> >
>> > When you are doing the changes can you please check if you could build
>> > the THUMB2 kernel with omap2plus_defconfig. I suspect the build will
>> > fail.
>>
>> With my Kconfig patch, kconfig won't let you turn on Thumb-2 in that
>> configuration:
>>
>>
> http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20101207.165737.0897658f.en.h
>> tml
>>
>> If you want to turn on Thumb-2, you must disable ARCH_OMAP2 first. If
>> my understanding is correct, this is the right behaviour.
>>
>>
> Ofcourse it will build with ARCH_OMAP2 disabled :) (ARMv6 dependency)
> In other words, I wanted to say that "omap2plus_defconfig" can't
> be used as is to build THUMB kernel binary.
Well, yes, that's another way of looking at it. Anyway, I think this
is the intended result -- is it OK for you?
Cheers
---Dave
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