Question on ARM Cortex R4 support in Linux

[shiraz hashim]

Hi Catalin,

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:49:18AM +0000, shiraz hashim wrote:
>> We plan to use Linux on our Cortex R4 based SoC.
>> Can we use the latest Linux straight away or do we
>> require to add some support for it.
>>
>> I went through www.linux-arm.org/LinuxKernel/LinuxM3
>> which describes Cortex M3 support in Linux but was not
>> able to find any information on M4.
>
> Do you mean M4 or R4 here?

I am interested in R4 but was just thinking that M4 support can work
for R4 as well.

>> Has anybody used it on Cortex R4 based platform ?
>
> In theory Linux support for R4 should just work (once CONFIG_MMU is
> disabled). I used to test it in the past regularly but not recently.

Great. I was planning to use linux-3.2, I hope the support is there ?

Thanks for the quick reply :)

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regards
Shiraz Hashim