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From: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	c-sky_gcc_upstream@c-sky.com, gnu-csky@mentor.com,
	thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com, wbx@uclibc-ng.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/19] csky: Build infrastructure
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:04:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180328080452.GA12230@guoren> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3NRtqGVrSiUwD0kUL7kC0=P1uTakcbaGtWRSssXs7L8w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:40:49AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Ok, thanks for the clarification. Obviously if they are mutually incompatible,
> there is no point in using a common kernel, so your current version is
> absolutely fine, and this is similar to how we cannot have a common kernel
> between ARMv5, ARMv7-A and ARMv7-M, which are all incompatible
> at the kernel level.
Yes.

> One more question for my understanding: Are the three types of ck8xx
> CPUs mutually incompatible in user space as well, or are the differences
> only for the kernel? For the ARM example, ARMv5 and ARMv7
> fundamentally require separate kernels, but both can run user space
> programs built for ARMv5.

 -mcpu=ck807 app could run on ck807, ck810, ck860.
 -mcpu=ck810 app could run on ck807, ck810, ck860.
 -mcpu=ck860 app only  run on ck860.

They are all incompatible at the kernel level.

Best Regards
 Guo Ren

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-28  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-18 19:51 [PATCH 00/19] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 01/19] csky: Kernel booting Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 02/19] csky: Exception handling and syscall Guo Ren
2018-03-19  1:48   ` Mark Rutland
2018-03-19  6:47     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-19  8:50   ` Dominik Brodowski
2018-03-19 11:03     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 03/19] csky: Cache and TLB routines Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 04/19] csky: MMU and page talbe management Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 05/19] csky: Process management Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 06/19] csky: IRQ handling Guo Ren
2018-03-19 13:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20  2:06     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 07/19] csky: Atomic operations Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 08/19] csky: ELF and module probe Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 09/19] csky: VDSO and rt_sigreturn Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 10/19] csky: Signal handling Guo Ren
2018-03-26 13:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-27  2:41     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 11/19] csky: Library functions Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 12/19] csky: Debug and Ptrace GDB Guo Ren
2018-03-26 13:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 13/19] csky: User access Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 14/19] csky: Misc headers Guo Ren
2018-03-19 16:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-20  3:36     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-20  7:54       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-20 13:22         ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 15/19] csky: Build infrastructure Guo Ren
2018-03-19 15:45   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-20 13:13     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-21  7:36       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-21 12:41         ` Guo Ren
2018-03-26 13:00           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-27  2:39             ` Guo Ren
2018-03-27  7:38               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-28  3:49                 ` Guo Ren
2018-03-28  7:40                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-28  8:04                     ` Guo Ren [this message]
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 16/19] csky: Device tree Guo Ren
2018-03-19 15:28   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-20 13:55     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 17/19] csky: defconfig Guo Ren
2018-03-26 13:16   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-27  2:21     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-27  7:48       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-28  3:59         ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 18/19] clocksource: add timer-nationalchip.c Guo Ren
2018-03-18 22:07   ` Daniel Lezcano
2018-03-19  6:59     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-19  4:15   ` Mark Rutland
2018-03-19  7:03     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 19:51 ` [PATCH 19/19] irqchip: add irq-nationalchip.c and irq-csky.c Guo Ren
2018-03-19  4:26   ` Mark Rutland
2018-03-19  7:08     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-19 13:30   ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-03-20 14:23     ` Guo Ren
2018-03-18 20:25 ` [PATCH 00/19] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port Joe Perches
2018-03-19  7:11   ` Guo Ren
2018-03-26 13:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-26 15:06   ` [gnu-csky] " Sandra Loosemore
2018-03-26 15:11     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-27  1:58   ` Guo Ren

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