linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND in plain-test] Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] Add initial support for the i.MXRTxxxx SoC family starting from i.IMXRT1050 SoC.

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Message-ID: <88f5ec3a-8765-48b2-0429-d182402826be@benettiengineering.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:54:05 +0100
From:   Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@...ettiengineering.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Jesse Taube <mr.bossman075@...il.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@....com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
        Sascha Hauer <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@....com>,
        Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>, SoC Team <soc@...nel.org>,
        Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@....com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@...hiba.co.jp>,
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        Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND in plain-test] Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] Add initial support for
 the i.MXRTxxxx SoC family starting from i.IMXRT1050 SoC.

On 17/12/21 11:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 10:54 AM Giulio Benetti
> <giulio.benetti@...ettiengineering.com> wrote:
>> On 16/12/21 22:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>
>>> Vladimir has put some work into making Cortex-R work in the kernel, and
>>> he may have some other thoughts on this question.
>>
>> I'm curious if he has something specific to Cortex-R to tell.
>>
>> I've found that Cortex-R82 has a MMU:
>> https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/cortex-r/cortex-r82
>> but I can't find any SoC that uses it. Also, I don't know how many
>> people could use it honestly.
> 
> R82 is fairly new, but I expect that we will see support in Linux in the
> future. Aside from having an MMU, it also 64-bit-only, so we'd treat
> it like a normal ARMv8-A core in arch/arm64.

Ah yes, that's fine. So let's wait for the future, in the meanwhile we 
focus con i.MXRT :-)

Thank you
Best regards
-- 
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas