nommu build failures on ARM in linux-next

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Jun 2 00:19:05 PDT 2014


Hello,

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:02:57AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Even so, I suspect even with this build problem solved, that's not going
> > to be the end of the story for noMMU breakage... it's certainly something
> > that gets very little testing by anyone.  I suspect it should be removed
> > from the mainline kernel tree rather than being a constant source of these
> > kinds of problems.
> That would mean that support for Cortex-M3 would die, too, which would
> (IMHO) be sad.
Just for your information: The problem in question here doesn't affect
ARM-v7M (aka Cortex-M[34]) because the patch only touches areas
protected by #ifdef CONFIG_CPU_CP15 which is off for these machines.

Best regards
Uwe

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