Android and compatibility with deprecated armv7 instructions

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Wed Jul 2 12:47:31 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:25:00PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:

> Partially because we have to maintain the stuff forever, but also because
> it sets precedent for merging more (unremoveable) emulation code in the
> future, which gets proportionally less testing over time.

If testing is a concern would a testsuite help address that?  I'd expect
we could get it run regularly on mainline by someone like Linaro or
Google.
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