From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:53:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [PATCH v3 00/31] AArch64 Linux kernel port In-Reply-To: <1347035226-18649-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> References: <1347035226-18649-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > This is the 3rd version of patches implementing Linux kernel support for > the 64-bit ARM architecture. Most of the review comments for the > previous release have been implemented. There are a few left (like > generic timer dts specification) but the main goal was to freeze the > user ABI. > > The Linux kernel patches are available on this tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64.git upstream > > Main changes since the previous version: > - ptrace interface now using regsets for TLS and hardware debug > registers. > - sys_personality fixes. PER_LINUX is the default for all tasks (32 or > 64-bit) and there is no compat_sys_personality defined. > - Kconfig clean-up (unused symbols, AARCH32_EMULATION removed in favour > of COMPAT). > - Clean-up of the __cpuc_* function prefixes. > - CPU information table implemented in C rather than assembly. > - __bad_* function calls replaced with BUILD_BUG. > - Inline get_user/put_user (code cleaner, slightly bigger kernel Image). > - DMA API implementation simplified, defaulting to swiotlb. It will be > extended as hardware becomes available. > - Arch-specific code in the generic timer patch moved to arch/arm64/. > - Comment fixes and clarifications. For those patches in this series I didn't comment on already: Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre Small nit: please s/nico at cam.org/nico at fluxnic.net/. Nicolas