Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Sebastian Gottschall <> | Subject | arm: ARM_VIRT_EXT is not supported by all v7 platforms, so it should not be enabled by default | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:07:15 +0200 |
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introduced in kernel 3.9 CONFIG_ARM_VIRT_EXT is default for all V7 arm cpu's. this is wrong and breaks smp support on BCM4708 for example. so keep it optional since no all v7 cpu's seem to support it. BCM4708 for instance is a arm cortex-a9. please merge this into one of the next patches.
Index: arch/arm/mm/Kconfig =================================================================== --- arch/arm/mm/Kconfig (revision 21211) +++ arch/arm/mm/Kconfig (working copy) @@ -640,8 +640,7 @@
config ARM_VIRT_EXT bool - depends on MMU - default y if CPU_V7 + depends on MMU && CPU_V7 help Enable the kernel to make use of the ARM Virtualization Extensions to install hypervisors without run-time firmware
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