[PATCH v7] ARM: PJ4B: fix for 3.10-rc

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jun 23 04:27:46 EDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:20:36AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:31:03 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> 
> > This path allows to fix one errata for PJ4B CPUs.
> > 
> > Without this the Armada 370 based board can't boot anymore since
> > 3.10-rc1. So this one really need to be applied on 3.10-rc.
> 
> I'd like to point out that this patch is really needed for 3.10-rc,
> *OR* ae8a8b9553 ("ARM: 7691/1: mm: kill unused
> TLB_CAN_READ_FROM_L1_CACHE and use ALT_SMP instead") should be
> reverted, as it introduces a regression compared to 3.9.
> 
> Without one of those two solutions, 3.10 cannot boot on Armada 370
> platforms, which is a clear regression compared to 3.9.
> 
> Linus has just released 3.10-rc7 and said it would most likely be the
> last rc.

The only thing I can say is that it would have been in -rc7 if the previous
revision hadn't contained a mistake.

And I also see no sign of this patch in the patch system yet.



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