[PATCH v2] ARM: nommu: re-enable use of vexpress without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM

Jonathan Austin jonathan.austin at arm.com
Wed Jan 9 14:17:59 EST 2013


Since 617276307cd4c ("ARM: vexpress: convert to multi-platform") it has
been impossible to select ARCH_VEXPRESS without ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM.

ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM doesn't make sense for NOMMU targets, not least
because of the need to hard-code the memory map. However, it should
still be possible to run NOMMU kernels on top of the Versatile Express
by selecting it as the only platform.

This patch creates a shim ARCH_VEXPRESS_NOMMU config option in the 'choice'
for "ARM system type" to make this possible again.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
Changes since v1:
Added the help text and changed authorship from Will to me (Jonathan)

 arch/arm/Kconfig |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 335e220..5b8a925 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -322,6 +322,21 @@ config ARCH_VERSATILE
 	help
 	  This enables support for ARM Ltd Versatile board.
 
+config ARCH_VEXPRESS_NOMMU
+	bool "ARM Ltd. Versatile Express family for NOMMU"
+	depends on !MMU
+	select ARCH_VEXPRESS
+	help
+	  This option enables support for systems using Cortex processor based
+	  ARM core and logic (FPGA) tiles on the Versatile Express motherboard,
+	  in configurations WITHOUT an MMU. You must boot using a Flattened
+	  Device Tree - the traditional ATAGs boot method is not usable with
+	  this configuration.
+
+	  If your system has an MMU and you want to make use of it, you
+	  should instead choose to build a multiplatform kernel and
+	  select ARCH_VEXPRESS
+
 config ARCH_AT91
 	bool "Atmel AT91"
 	select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB
-- 
1.7.9.5





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