On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 13:05 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:25:18PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > With your latest patches, do we use the TLS emulation on ARMv7 (UP) if > > v6 is compiled in? If that's the case, we may have a problem - I talked > > to the toolchain guys and it looks like code optimised for ARMv7 reads > > the TLS register directly without going through the kuser helper. > > That's not a problem, because you wouldn't run ARMv7 optimized userspace > on an ARMv6 CPU. That's not what this whole exercise is about.
But you can run ARMv7 optimised userspace on ARMv7 CPU with a kernel image compiled for v6+v7. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
