* Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [100604 03:17]: > Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:46:23PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > >> Compiling in multiple ARM platforms is trickier, we would have to get > >> rid of the duplicate defines like NR_IRQS, then have some common clock > >> framework etc. Then figure out some way to get rid of Makefile.boot. > >> Russell probably has some other things in mind that would have to be > >> changed to make this happen. > > > > - Find someway to handle the wide variety of interrupt controllers. > > - Be able to handle any multitude of V:P translations, including non-linear > > alongside linear transations. > > - Different PAGE_OFFSETs > > - Different kernel VM layouts allowing for a variety of different ioremap > > region sizes > > > > and so the list goes on... > > > > - Support for ARMv5, v6 and v7 in the same kernel image. > > On davinci, we've recently run into the problem where a new SoC in the > family is largely the same in terms of common HW blocks ands shared > peripherals with other davincis, but they upgraded from ARMv5 to > ARMv6. Attempting to build a single kernel that supports ARMv5 and > ARMv6 uncovered a pile of assumptions that v5 and v6 would never be in > the same kernel. Yeah we should sort that out, otherwise more things are slowly added that makes it harder to do. Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
