arm: ARM_VIRT_EXT is not supported by all v7 platforms, so it should not be enabled by default

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Apr 22 06:46:54 EDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 07:07:15PM +0100, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> introduced in kernel 3.9 CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT is default for all V7 arm 
> cpu's. this is wrong and breaks smp support on BCM4708 for example.
> so keep it optional since no all v7 cpu's seem to support it. BCM4708 
> for instance is a arm cortex-a9. please merge this into one of the next 
> patches.

This was intentional, since ARM_VIRT_EXT shouldn't have any visible effect
when selected on CPUs without the virtualisation extensions.

If this is breaking SMP support, then there is a bug somewhere, so please
can elaborate on the problems which you are seeing?

Cheers,

Will



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list