[PATCH] [ARM] Introduce patching of phys_to_virt and vice versa

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Sat Jun 26 14:22:03 EDT 2010


On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> It needs to be documented that PATCH_PHYS_VIRT is only for non-XIP and
> non-Thumb2 kernels.  I suggest it goes in the help text for the config
> option, or a comment before the option.

The idea is to do the same for Thumb2 as well.

Obviously this is incompatible with XIP so should be documented as such.  
And I think we should try to make this option non user selectable if 
possible, but rather make it depend on the variable phys offset and 
linear memory layout options.


Nicolas



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