From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jemmajones81@yahoo.co.uk (Jemma Jones) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:20:08 +0100 (BST) Subject: Development tree for Cortex-A15? In-Reply-To: References: <1336046199.46241.YahooMailNeo@web132501.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <1336052155.37772.YahooMailNeo@web132504.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <6e4ad6defa33bf693ec45cae819469f0@localhost> <1336121047.79153.YahooMailNeo@web132504.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1336134008.88695.YahooMailNeo@web132504.mail.ird.yahoo.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > Subject: Re: Development tree for Cortex-A15? > > On Fri, 4 May 2012 09:44:07 +0100 (BST), Jemma Jones > wrote: >>> Subject: Re: Development tree for Cortex-A15? >> >>> >>> On Thu, 3 May 2012 14:35:55 +0100 (BST), Jemma Jones >>> wrote: >>>>> ? Subject: Re: Development tree for Cortex-A15? >>>> >>>> ? I'm currently on kvm-arm-v7-ael, because it looked like the > most >>>> ? up-to-date one. Which one should I be using for Cortex-A15 > support? >>> >>> That branch is good enough, if you have a bleeding edge QEMU. Note that >>> the VE A15 support in that tree is DT only. I'm working on a v3.4 > based >>> one >>> at the moment, but that's not completely ready yet. >> >> I'm just a little confused because under arch/arm/mach-vexpress/ there > is >> no A15 tile? On the virtualopensystems.com git (which you quote above) > you >> had to explicitly enable the board and it would show up in the .config > as >> CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS_CA15X4. Is that not the case anymore in your kernel >> tree? > > No. The ARM tree in general is moving to the device tree, and > CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS_CA15X4 was always meant as a temporary hack until the > VE-DT port was mature enough to be used. > > As Pawe?'s DT work has been merged into 3.4, there is strictly no reason > to keep this hack around, and my recent trees do reflect that fact > (kvm-arm-v7-ael and kvm-arm-3.4). Christoffer may decide to keep this in > his tree during a transition period, but CONFIG_ARCH_VEXPRESS_CA15X4 is > dead as far as I am concerned. > > If you're just starting to play with KVM-ARM now, please don't rely on > the > A15 board file, it is a dead end. Any chance you can send me a .config file that works on the kernel in this branch which runs on your A15x1 FastModel? I'm using the boot-wrapper from http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=arm/models/boot-wrapper.git;a=summary in semi hosting mode. I managed to boot Android from that but I don't seem to be able to boot your kernel. It just stops after the boot-wrapper says loading uImage. I'll need some more time to debug it properly and give some more information but it would be useful if I had a working .config to compare mine to. Cheers.