Am 22.08.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Guillaume Gardet <[email protected]>:

> 
> Le 22/08/2013 19:31, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>> On 20.08.2013, at 14:26, Guillaume Gardet wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> just a little question about armv7 configs.
>>> 
>>> Recent kernel configs have disabled CONFIG_SWP_EMULATE (Emulate SWP/SWPB 
>>> instructions). Is it on purpose?
>> Do we need it for anything? We don't have legacy user space code we need to 
>> keep running, no?
> 
> I think XBMC make still use of it. But there is not yet openSUSE XBMC package.

Really? Why would it? It's a legacy opcode that slows you down fwiw. It'd be 
good to fix XBMC then.

Alex

> 
>> 
>>> Moreover we have not enabled ThumbEE CPU extension (CONFIG_ARM_THUMBEE). 
>>> Should we enable it?
>> FWIW Thumb EE is only necessary for special JVMs that generate Thumb EE 
>> code. But yes, apparently it's part of ARMv7, so we should at least allow 
>> user space to make use of it.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> 
> Guillaume
> 
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