[PATCH v2] arm: Fix memory attribute inconsistencies when using fixmap

afzal mohammed afzal.mohd.ma at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 13:17:36 PDT 2017


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 03:26:28PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 19:00 +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> > > > It looks like nommu should be unaffected, but it is worth giving it a
> > > > spin as well
> 
> After much faffing around I got MPS2 booting a Linux kernel, and
> somewhat to my surprise it seems to boot fine, all the way up to
> panicking because it didn't find an init. This was with $subject patch.

Vybrid VF610 Cortex M4 boots to prompt w/ this patch on current mainline.

Vybrid VF610 Cortex A5 using !MMU Kernel w/ this patch too boots to
prompt (climbing onto the shoulder's of Vladimir, not Torvalds HEAD)

Regards
afzal



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