Physical memory start contraints in the Linux kernel (Was: Re: Xen osstest on Calxeda midway progress (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 21486: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED))

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 12 November 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 14:35 +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> > On 11/12/2013 01:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > BTW, does Dom0 require an LPAE-enabled kernel or can it be a regular
> > > non-LPAE ARMv6/v7 multiplatform build?
> > 
> > It can be both.
> 
> NB: v7 only, we don't do v6 at all. But yes either LPAE or regular is
> fine with us.

Why not combined v6/v7 kernels for non-LPAE? I can't see a technical reason
preventing you from running a Dom0 or DomU kernel that can also run on
some ARMv6 platform as long as both platforms and CPUs are enabled in
Kconfig.

	Arnd