Steps to submit a new arch/arm port

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 25 September 2015 17:33:13 Mason wrote:
> On 25/09/2015 17:28, Mason wrote:
> 
> > About NEON. I had 'select VFP' but I see that CPU_V7 enables VFPv3 and VFP.
> > Isn't NEON required to support user-space programs using NEON instructions?
> > arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
> 
> I'm taking cues from exynos and omap2, are these good references?
> 
> config ARCH_OMAP2PLUS_TYPICAL (default y) selects NEON if CPU_V7.
> Can I do something similar? (My platform is only CPU_V7.)

No, you should leave it turned off and just enable that option in the
defconfig. There is no need to prevent anyone from running a kernel
with NEON disabled if they have matching user space.

	Arnd