[PATCH] ARM: Allow SMP_ON_UP to work with Thumb-2 kernels.

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Nov 23 07:44:46 EST 2010


On 23 November 2010 10:33, Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org> wrote:
> It would be nice to be able to use W() in ARM state (in which case it
> should simply have no effect).  However, the .w suffix (generated by
> W()) is invalid syntax in traditional ARM assembler.

I see this as a gas problem. IMHO the unified assembly should allow
(and ignore) the .w suffix in ARM mode. The entry-armv.S file gets
'.syntax unified' anyway since it's built to Thumb-2.

-- 
Catalin



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