[PATCH 00/78] ARM aarch64 updates

Andrey Smirnov andrew.smirnov at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 22:35:42 PDT 2018


On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:52 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is a massive update for the ARM aarch64 port. With the following
> series the aarch64 port should be on par with the 32bit support.
>
> With this aarch64 supports relocatable binaries, proper MMU support, DMA
> cache maintenance operations, and finally starting a aarch64 Linux
> image :)
>
> This all has been developed on a i.MX8MQ EVK board. The i.MX8MQ patches
> are currently evolving, but are not yet quite ready. DDR setup is still
> very crude and pinmux is not yet working. NXP did a nice job with the
> i.MX8MQ: It behaves very much like a i.MX6 with a different core, so
> we already have most of the drivers and I could concentrate on the
> aarch64 update. I hope I can send i.MX8 patches soon.

Sascha:

I only vaguely familiar with AARCH64, so take the tag with a grain of
salt, but I read through the patchset and it all looks reasonable, so
FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov at gmail.com>

I commented on individual patches with suggestions, but they are just
that, so feel free to ignore.

Thanks,
Andrey Smirnov



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