[PATCH CFT] ARM:MSM: Enable ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and AUTO_ZRELADDR default

Courtney Cavin courtney.cavin at sonymobile.com
Mon Dec 9 12:57:51 EST 2013


On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 10:40:50AM +0100, panchaxari wrote:
> ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and AUTO_ZRELADDR have been enabled as default configs
> to MSM platform
> 
> Introduction of PHYS_VIRT config as default would enable phy-to-virt and
> virt-to-phy translation function at boot and module loading time
> and enforce dynamic reallocation of memory. AUTO_ZRELADDR config would
> enable calculation of kernel load address at run time.
> 
> PHYS_VIRT config is mutually exclusive to XIP_KERNEL, XIP_KERNEL is used in
> systems with NOR flash devices, and ZRELADDR config is mutually exclusive
> to ZBOOT_ROM.
> 
> CFT::Call For Testing
> 
> Requesting maintainers of MSM platforms to evaluate the changes on the board
> and comment, as I dont have the board for testing and also requesting an ACK
> 
> Signed-off-by: panchaxari <panchaxari.prasannamurthy at linaro.org>
> Cc: David Brown <davidb at codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker at fifo99.com>
> Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh at codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Cc: linux-arm-msm at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

We run with these enabled on our development boards already.

Tested-by: Courtney Cavin <courtney.cavin at sonymobile.com>

-Courtney



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