[PATCH] Realview: name configuration options after actual board names

Colin Tuckley colin.tuckley at arm.com
Mon Jan 24 04:05:35 EST 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: catalin.marinas at gmail.com [mailto:catalin.marinas at gmail.com] On

> On Saturday, 22 January 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > I haven't significantly updated the descriptions for the tiles as
> that
> > is even less clear - as far as I can see on ARMs website, there is no
> > Cortex-A9 tile for Realview EB - only ARM11MPCore, ARM1156T2F-S,
> > ARM1176TZF-S and Cortex-R4F.  So exactly what this 'Multicore Cortex-
> A9
> > Tile' is..
> 
> AFAIK there isn't any official A9 tile for EB. this configuration has
> been used in processor validation and also on the ARMv7 software
> models, that's why we pushed this option. You can remove it if you
> want, we'll probably keep it around in our patches.

No, please do *not* delete it. It is used by one of the emulation platforms.

Colin






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