[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/1] fix ARM DCC support for ARMv7 based cores (e.g. CortexA)

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Wed Feb 25 07:38:25 CET 2015


Hello Alexander,

On Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:02:47 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:13:16 +0100, Alexander Merkle
> <alexander.merkle at lauterbach.com> wrote:
> > 
> > arm_dcc.c supported ARMv4 (ARM7) to ARMv6 (ARM11) correctly. All recent
> > CortexA/ARMv7 based cores share the mrc/mcr coprocessor calls of ARMv6.
> > Due to the missing #ifdef the ARM7/ARMv4 calls are used as soon as
> > CONFIG_CPU_V7 is defined. This results in an undefined instruction exception.
> 
> IIUC, the only board that uses ARM DCC serial is the Zynq, and it
> gets it to work by #define'ing CONFIG_CPU_V6 in its include config
> file despite being ARMv7. Am I right in assuming this #define was
> actually a hack to get around the issue you're fixing here, and that it
> can and should be removed from the Zinq include? If so, can you please
> post a v2 of your patch which does the removal too?
> 
> (BTW, no need for a cover letter when there's only one patch in the
> "series" IMO)

Ping.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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