Re: [PATCH] ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K

From: Andrew Jeffery
Date: Thu Sep 19 2019 - 23:58:15 EST




On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, at 23:56, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Linux supports both the original ARMv6 level (early ARM1136) and ARMv6K
> (later ARM1136, ARM1176 and ARM11mpcore).
>
> ast2500 falls into the second categoy, being based on arm1176jzf-s.
> This is enabled by default when using ARCH_MULTI_V6, so we should
> not 'select CPU_V6'.
>
> Removing this will lead to more efficient use of atomic instructions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@xxxxxxxx>