From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:08:34 +0000 Subject: Building for MMU-less vexpress targets In-Reply-To: <20121105173640.GR3351@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <20121105173640.GR3351@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <201211051908.34291.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 05 November 2012, Will Deacon wrote: > I was playing around with !CONFIG_MMU today and to my dismay noticed that > you can't select ARCH_VEXPRESS without CONFIG_MMU=y! This is because > ARCH_VEXPRESS is only selectable via ARCH_MULTI_V7, which depends on > ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM which in turn depends on MMU. > > I'm inclined to add a dummy VEXPRESS entry to arm/Kconfig which depends on > !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM and just selects ARCH_VEXPRESS (with the if ARCH_MULTI_V7 > dependency dropped) but I wondered if you'd got any better ideas? > I don't actually remember what the reason for making ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM depend on MMU was. Maybe it just works if you drop the dependency. Presumably it's related to ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and AUTO_ZRELADDR not working on NOMMU, but if that's the case, we could make it ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM bool "Allow multiple platforms to be selected" select ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT if !MMU select AUTO_ZRELADDR if !MMU but maybe those actually work without MMU as well. I have never looked too closely at NOMMU configurations, every time I tried, they were broken in combination with something else I wanted to enable. Arnd