regarding arm: update ARM_ERRATA_430973 Kconfig

From: Peter Meerwald
Date: Tue Mar 26 2013 - 07:57:18 EST


Hello,

regarding your patch against arch/arm/Kconfig:

@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ config ARM_ERRATA_430973
depends on CPU_V7
help
This option enables the workaround for the 430973 Cortex-A8
- (r1p0..r1p2) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
+ (r1p*) erratum. If a code sequence containing an ARM/Thumb
interworking branch is replaced with another code sequence at the
same virtual address, whether due to self-modifying code or virtual
to physical address re-mapping, Cortex-A8 does not recover from the


I am seeing strange segfault/illegal instructions fixed by enabling
ARM_ERRATA_430973 on a TI OMAP3 DM3730, r3p2 IMHO (see below)

ARM_ERRATA_430973 is relevant for which processors? have you checked the
errata list? I had no luck obtaining it yet


cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 313.29
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x3
CPU part : 0xc08
CPU revision : 2

thanks, p.

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Peter Meerwald
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