[PATCH v8 16/16] ARM: LPAE: Add the Kconfig entries
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Nov 7 11:16:58 EST 2011
This patch adds the ARM_LPAE and ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT Kconfig entries
allowing LPAE support to be compiled into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 44789ef..885c04e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1959,7 +1959,7 @@ endchoice
config XIP_KERNEL
bool "Kernel Execute-In-Place from ROM"
- depends on !ZBOOT_ROM
+ depends on !ZBOOT_ROM && !ARM_LPAE
help
Execute-In-Place allows the kernel to run from non-volatile storage
directly addressable by the CPU, such as NOR flash. This saves RAM
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
index 67f75a0..d289cdb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
@@ -629,6 +629,23 @@ config IO_36
comment "Processor Features"
+config ARM_LPAE
+ bool "Support for the Large Physical Address Extension"
+ depends on MMU && CPU_V7
+ help
+ Say Y if you have an ARMv7 processor supporting the LPAE page
+ table format and you would like to access memory beyond the
+ 4GB limit. The resulting kernel image will not run on
+ processors without the LPA extension.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
+config ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
+ def_bool ARM_LPAE
+
+config ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
+ def_bool ARM_LPAE
+
config ARM_THUMB
bool "Support Thumb user binaries"
depends on CPU_ARM720T || CPU_ARM740T || CPU_ARM920T || CPU_ARM922T || CPU_ARM925T || CPU_ARM926T || CPU_ARM940T || CPU_ARM946E || CPU_ARM1020 || CPU_ARM1020E || CPU_ARM1022 || CPU_ARM1026 || CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3 || CPU_MOHAWK || CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7 || CPU_FEROCEON
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