Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:47:41 +0530 | Subject | Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0) | From | naveen yadav <> |
| |
Thanks a lot Catalin,
we do not want to use LPAE featue and virtulisation feature of cortex -A15, then still I need generic timers ?. or they are used in virtulasiation ..
Thanks
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:24:42AM +0000, naveen yadav wrote: >> Recently Greg decide and select linux 3.0 for long term. >> >> http://www.kroah.com/log/ >> 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be >> maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me. >> >> PS. Catalin+ Greg >> So I have one request from Mr. Catalin and Greg. >> >> Is ARM-15 support will be added in this or not. ? > > It depends on how much Cortex-A15 support you mean. UP with classic MMU > is already supported as it's an ARMv7 processor. SMP with classic MMU > got merged in 3.1-rc1 (commit 7665d9d2df - "ARM: proc: add proc info for > Cortex-A15MP using classic page tables"). ARM LPAE was merged in 3.3-rc1 > and generic timers probably during the next merging window. > > ARM LPAE and generic timers are unlikely to be back-ported to 3.0 > (though I have some patches around but they need considerable amount of > timer for maintaining in a long-term release). > > -- > Catalin
| |