[RFC] Remove support for ARMv3 ARM610 and ARM710 CPUs

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri May 4 10:41:24 EDT 2012


On Friday 04 May 2012, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> This patch removes support for ARMv3 CPUs, which haven't worked properly
> for quite some time (see the FIXME comment in arch/arm/mm/fault.c).  The
> only V3 parts left is the cache model for ARMv3, which is needed for some
> odd reason by ARM740T CPUs, and being able to build with -march=armv3,
> which is required for the RiscPC platform due to its bus structure.

No objections to the patch, but I wonder if this change obsoletes any
hardware drivers in turn.  Are there any RiscPC peripherals that are
only available on the older models?

	Arnd



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