[PATCH] Realview: name configuration options after actual board names

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Sun Jan 23 10:55:49 EST 2011


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:02:30AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 January 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > I haven't significantly updated the descriptions for the tiles as that
> > is even less clear - as far as I can see on ARMs website, there is no
> > Cortex-A9 tile for Realview EB - only ARM11MPCore, ARM1156T2F-S,
> > ARM1176TZF-S and Cortex-R4F.  So exactly what this 'Multicore Cortex-A9
> > Tile' is..
> 
> AFAIK there isn't any official A9 tile for EB. this configuration has
> been used in processor validation and also on the ARMv7 software
> models, that's why we pushed this option. You can remove it if you
> want, we'll probably keep it around in our patches.

But otherwise that's an ack for the patch?



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