Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base handling

From	Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base handling
Date	2017-02-01 14:20 +0100
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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 10:33:17AM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> On 31/01/17 19:24, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 06:34:46PM +0530, afzal mohammed wrote:

> >> ARM core changes to support !MMU Kernel on v7-A MMU processors.
> >>
> >> Based on the feedback from Russell, it was decided to handle vector
> >> base dynamically in C for no-MMU & work towards the the goal of
> >> removing VECTORS_BASE from Kconfig.
> > 
> > Looks good from my perspective.  If Vladimir can reply about patch 2,
> > then I think we'll be good to go with these.  Thanks.

Patch system has been updated with this series along with Vladimir's
Tested-by on patch 2.

Thanks

> My R-class and M-class setups continue to work with this series applied on
> top of next-20170201 plus

> following fixup for PATCH 2/3

Yes, Russell has applied another patch and the context changes a little.

> 
>  -#define VECTORS_BASE          UL(0xffff0000)
>  -
> - /*
> -  * We fix the TCM memories max 32 KiB ITCM resp DTCM at these
> -  * locations
> + #ifdef CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
> + #define KERNEL_START          _sdata
> + #else
> 
> FWIW: Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>

Thanks

Regards
afzal

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[PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base handling afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH v3 1/3] ARM: nommu: dynamic exception base address setting afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: nommu: display vectors base afzal mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> - 2017-01-31 14:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base  handling Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk> - 2017-01-31 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base  handling Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> - 2017-02-01 11:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: !MMU: v7-A support, dynamic vectors base  handling Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com> - 2017-02-01 14:20 +0100

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