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From: afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:20:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180316045016.GA7697@afzalpc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a10hBz7QYk5v5MfhVMPOwFnWYTn95WZp1HtHrd7-GQpRg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:56:48AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:42 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > Do we have anything left that still implements NOMMU?

Please don't kill !MMU.

> Yes, plenty.

> I've made an overview of the remaining architectures for my own reference[1].
> The remaining NOMMU architectures are:
> 
> - arch/arm has ARMv7-M (Cortex-M microcontroller), which is actually
> gaining traction

ARMv7-R as well, also seems ARM is coming up with more !MMU's - v8-M,
v8-R. In addition, though only of academic interest, ARM MMU capable
platform's can run !MMU Linux.

afzal

> - arch/sh has an open-source J2 core that was added not that long ago,
> it seems to
>   be the only SH compatible core that anyone is working on.
> - arch/microblaze supports both MMU/NOMMU modes (most use an MMU)
> - arch/m68k supports several NOMMU targets, both the coldfire SoCs and the
>   classic processors
> - c6x has no MMU

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-16  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14 14:34 [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 14:43 ` [PATCH 11/16] treewide: simplify Kconfig dependencies for removed archs Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 12:54   ` Kalle Valo
2018-03-19 23:06   ` Alexandre Belloni
2018-03-15  9:42 ` [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures David Howells
2018-03-15  9:48   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-03-15 16:56     ` rfc: remove print_vma_addr ? (was Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures) Joe Perches
2018-03-15 17:08       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-03-15 17:13         ` Joe Perches
2018-03-15  9:56   ` [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-16  4:50     ` afzal mohammed [this message]
2018-03-15  9:59   ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-03-15 10:42     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-15 14:17       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-20 17:11       ` Palmer Dabbelt

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