Steps to submit a new arch/arm port

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Sep 25 04:56:50 PDT 2015


On Friday 25 September 2015 11:27:47 Mason wrote:
> I see that defining ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM selects AUTO_ZRELADDR
> Is that what is supposed to make Makefile.boot not required?
> 

Javier explained this.

> On an unrelated topic, someone wrote
> select CPU_USE_DOMAINS if MMU
> in my platform Kconfig. But looking at arm/mm/Kconfig,
> it looks like it is not set for other V7 platforms.
> Is this an obsolete feature that I should remove?

Domains are useful in principle, but we stopped using them for
v6 and v7 CPUs as of 247055aa21ffef1 ("ARM: 6384/1: Remove the
domain switching on ARMv6k/v7 CPUs") and the select needs to
be removed from your platform.

	Arnd



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