[PATCH v6 0/3] Updated Cortex-M3 series

[Shiraz Hashim]

Hi Uwe,

On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:50:35PM +0800, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:07:08PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > Is it possible to build a NOMMU kernel that runs on both
> > ARMv7-A amd ARMv7-M, in other words is ARMv7-M compatible with
> > ARMv7-A (or ARMv7-R for that matter) if you don't use the MMU?
>
> the instructions to enable and disable irqs are different, so
> we'd need another indirection at least there. Also the whole
> exception model is different. So I'd say it's too different to
> target for a common kernel for the A, R and M profiles.

We are using standard Linux kernel (v3.3) with MMU disabled on
a Cortex R4 system.

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regards
Shiraz