[PATCH 0/3] v7-M support using MULTIPLATFORM

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Nov 4 03:25:13 EST 2013


Hello Nicolas,

On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:46:42PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:28:01AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Right, but do we agree that it should be possible to create an XIP image
> > > for i.MX6? If so: You currently cannot, because i.MX6 isn't configurable
> > > without MULTIPLATFORM. Also in the times before MULTIPLATFORM XIP was
> > > special.
> > 
> > That's one of the consequences of pushing to multiplatform support - XIP
> > has fallen by the way side as a result of this effort (it was discussed
> > previously) and we had decided that almost no one uses it anymore and it
> > would not be part of the multiplatform stuff.  It was only really used
> > by very few SA11x0 and PXA platforms anyway.
> 
> Semantically, MULTIPLATFORM is incompatible with XIP as well as NOMMU.
> 
> So if a platform exists only when MULTIPLATFORM is selected, preventing 
> it from being configured as NOMMU or XIP then something is broken with 
> MULTIPLATFORM.
Is this an Ack for patch 1 in this series?

Best regards
Uwe

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