[PATCH] hvc_dcc : add support to armv4 and armv5 core

[matthieu.castet@parrot.com (Matthieu CASTET)]

Alan Cox a ?crit :
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:33:51 +0100
> Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:29:04PM +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
>>> Alan Cox a ?crit :
>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:21:56 +0200
>>>> Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Castet <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_dcc.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
>>>> This is a step in the wrong direction. This should all be runtime handled
>>>>
>>>> NAK.
>>>>
>>> AFAIK you can't build a arm kernel that support arm6/armv7 and armv5.
>>> And I am not sure it will be possible one day.
>> There are no plans to ever make it possible; there are too many significant
>> differences between ARMv4, v5 architectures and ARMv6,v7 architectures
>> to warrant making this runtime selectable.
> 
> Then bury this crap in platform files please not in the drivers/tty layer
> code. Make it a platform driver provided callback or something.
> 
I posted a new v2 patch that make the selection dynamic.


Matthieu