[PATCH 2/3] arm: introduce IRQ stacks

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Tue Nov 10 05:04:06 EST 2020


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:19 AM Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann <arnd at kernel.org> [201109 19:10]:
> > On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 3:45 PM Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> >
> > I know it works, my point was that I'm not sure anyone cares
> > any more ;-)
>
> Well for example whatever Linux running ARMv6 LTE modems out there might
> need to be supported for quite some time. Not sure how many of them are
> able to update kernels though. Certainly network security related issues
> would be a good reason to update the kernels.

While I agree they should update their kernels, I suspect none of those
modems do. I am however certain that none of them are running an
SMP-enabled multiplatform kernel on an ARM1136r0!

Are these actually ARMv6? Most ARM11 cores you'd come across
in practice are ARMv6K (ARM1136r1, ARM1167, ARM11MPCore),
in particular every SoC that has any mainline support except for
the ARM1136r0 based OMAP2 and i.MX3.

        Arnd



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