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

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 23 06:09:51 EDT 2013


On 06/23/2013 10:27 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 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.
> 

It is now on the pacth system. I was waiting for at least a few hours,
to let people give their feedback and test it.


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