From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:40:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 0/3] v7-M support using MULTIPLATFORM In-Reply-To: <20131104082513.GG14892@pengutronix.de> References: <1380534577-15076-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <20131104082513.GG14892@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: <201311051240.34212.arnd@arndb.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Monday 04 November 2013, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > Hello Nicolas, > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:46:42PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:28:01AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > > > Right, but do we agree that it should be possible to create an XIP image > > > > for i.MX6? If so: You currently cannot, because i.MX6 isn't configurable > > > > without MULTIPLATFORM. Also in the times before MULTIPLATFORM XIP was > > > > special. > > > > > > That's one of the consequences of pushing to multiplatform support - XIP > > > has fallen by the way side as a result of this effort (it was discussed > > > previously) and we had decided that almost no one uses it anymore and it > > > would not be part of the multiplatform stuff. It was only really used > > > by very few SA11x0 and PXA platforms anyway. > > > > Semantically, MULTIPLATFORM is incompatible with XIP as well as NOMMU. > > > > So if a platform exists only when MULTIPLATFORM is selected, preventing > > it from being configured as NOMMU or XIP then something is broken with > > MULTIPLATFORM. > Is this an Ack for patch 1 in this series? Uwe, have you seen that patch that Jonathan Austin was working on to reorganize the platform selection for multiplatform? I don't know if he has gotten around the time to post it on the mailing list, if not he can probably follow up here. Arnd