On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Dave Martin wrote:

> This makes sense, because Thumb-2 code can't execute on plain
> ARMv6 processors.
> 
> This will avoid accidentally configuring a broken kernel where the
> config otherwise would allow multiple architecture versions to
> coexist in the same kernel.
> 
> Not adding !CPU_V5 etc., because the chance of anyone trying to
> put v5 and v7 in the same kernel is low, and I'm not aware of
> any mach which can do this.  These could be added later if it
> matters.
> 
> Note that the rules may need to be refined if support for the
> ARM1156J(F)-S processor is later added to the kernel, since this
> processor supports the rare ARMv6T2 extensions, which add support
> for Thumb-2 and a few other ARMv7 features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>


> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index db524e7..f9ca7f3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ config HZ
>  
>  config THUMB2_KERNEL
>       bool "Compile the kernel in Thumb-2 mode"
> -     depends on CPU_V7 && EXPERIMENTAL
> +     depends on CPU_V7 && !CPU_V6 && EXPERIMENTAL
>       select AEABI
>       select ARM_ASM_UNIFIED
>       help
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
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