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

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Mar 27 00:29:25 PDT 2017


On 24 March 2017 at 20:17, afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>

Thanks for testing!

I suppose this patch is ready to go into the patch system, with
Afzal's tested-by as well as mine.



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