linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] ARM: ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT

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Message-ID: <20110726213910.GA11358@huya.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:39:10 -0700
From:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] ARM: ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT_16BIT no longer depends
 on MSM

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:24:26PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > On 07/25/2011 01:31 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 04:25:26PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> MSM no longer requires the 16bit version of dynamic P2V. Drop the
> > >>> dependency.
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> > >>> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
> > >>> Cc: David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>
> > >> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
> > > As it's now unused, we can kill the additional code which makes things
> > > needlessly more complex...
> > 
> > Ok. I'll remove the extra code in v3.
> 
> Something like this (untested):
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm/kernel/head.S

I've tested this on MSM8660.  Works with CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
enabled (but an offset of zero).

I'd like to make this up into a patch, Nicolas, do you want to be the
author (and do you sign-off)?

Thanks,
David

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