Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm: introduce IRQ stacks

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Nov 10 2020 - 08:35:38 EST


On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:06 PM Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Are these actually ARMv6? Most ARM11 cores you'd come across
> > in practice are ARMv6K (ARM1136r1, ARM1167, ARM11MPCore),
> > in particular every SoC that has any mainline support except for
> > the ARM1136r0 based OMAP2 and i.MX3.
>
> I've been only using smp_on_up for the ARMv6 ARM1136r0 variants
> for omap2, no SMP on those.

Obviously all SMP hardware is ARMv6K, the only question I raised
in point "c)" is what we would lose by making ARMv6 (ARM1136r0)
support and SMP mutually exclusive in a kernel configuration, and
I suppose the answer remains "testing".

Arnd