linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: msm: Remove PLAT_PHYS

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1107290841300.12766@xanadu.home>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:42:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>,
	Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: msm: Remove PLAT_PHYS_OFFSETS from MSM
 targets

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:18:11PM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > Now that MSM can boot with the phys offset patching, eliminate the
> > definitions of the phys offsets, and instead select
> > ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT.
> 
> I think it may be better to remove the EXPERIMENTAL status of
> ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT, and make the option default to 'y' now, so that
> we start building all kernels with this enabled.  If people don't
> want it (and know what they're doing) they can disable it manually
> (maybe make the option only appear for EXPERT).

One of my jumbo patch series is doing that.

> Lets see about that after this merge window is over.

Right.


Nicolas
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