question about ARM11MP cpu architecture identification

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 16:21 +0000, saeed bishara wrote:
>     The ARM11MP (rev r2p0) cpu architecture is ARMv6, and according to
> the http://infocenter.arm.com, its Main ID register is 0x410FB024, and
> the MMFR[3:0] is 3. but it looks to me that the cpu_architecture()
> will identify it as ARMv7, and if the kernel was configured with
> CPU_V7 only, then the lookup_processor_type() function also will
> identify it as ARMv7. Am I missing something here?

cpu_architecture() returns the architecture version of the supported MMU
which on ARM11MPCore is the same as on ARMv7.

Even if it is possible to configure both v6 and v7 in the same kernel, I
don't think it is currently possible to successfully run such kernel.

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Catalin