Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0)

[naveen yadav]

Thanks a lot Catalin,

we do not want to use LPAE featue and virtulisation feature of cortex -A15,
 then still I need generic timers  ?. or they are used in virtulasiation ..

Thanks


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:24:42AM +0000, naveen yadav wrote:
>> Recently Greg decide and select linux 3.0 for long term.
>>
>> http://www.kroah.com/log/
>> 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be
>> maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me.
>>
>> PS. Catalin+ Greg
>> So I have one request from Mr. Catalin and Greg.
>>
>> Is ARM-15 support will be added in this or not. ?
>
> It depends on how much Cortex-A15 support you mean. UP with classic MMU
> is already supported as it's an ARMv7 processor. SMP with classic MMU
> got merged in 3.1-rc1 (commit 7665d9d2df - "ARM: proc: add proc info for
> Cortex-A15MP using classic page tables"). ARM LPAE was merged in 3.3-rc1
> and generic timers probably during the next merging window.
>
> ARM LPAE and generic timers are unlikely to be back-ported to 3.0
> (though I have some patches around but they need considerable amount of
> timer for maintaining in a long-term release).
>
> --
> Catalin
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