Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753537Ab3HDSrG (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Aug 2013 14:47:06 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f171.google.com ([209.85.216.171]:53887 "EHLO mail-qc0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752950Ab3HDSrF (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Aug 2013 14:47:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [173.13.129.225] In-Reply-To: <20130804183708.GI23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20130803000731.GS23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130804125346.GH23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20130804183708.GI23006@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 11:47:04 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Build breakage due to latest ARM fixes From: Olof Johansson To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=F6nig?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1903 Lines: 42 On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:20:21AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 01:07:31AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> >> I'll look into that. Obviously, I never build nommu because it isn't >> >> part of the build system and the nommu platform I do have - OKI67001 - >> >> doesn't have mainline kernel support. (And if it did, it would not be >> >> DT, so I doubt it's submittable.) >> > >> > Okay, what I'm going to do is push the OKI67001 stuff into mainline >> > irrespective of DT or not, so that I can then add noMMU build _and_ >> > boot tests to my build system, which should ensure that problems >> > like that get detected before they're pushed upstream. >> >> That seems like a step backwards. How have !MMU changes been handled >> until now? Someone external has been relied on for testing? > > No, they've had no testing as far as I'm aware. noMMU never got to the > stage when it was merged that it had any platforms before Hiyok went > silent. > > The only real testing I'm aware of is when I recreated the OKI67001 > support a while back and got my board to boot. Uwe has been busy pushing various patches for M3/M4 support, I don't know how far it is from having some real hardware usable though. Uwe? > As for qemu, software emulations while nice and convenient don't > accurately reflect real hardware. Oh, agreed, it doesn't beat hardware-based testing but in the absence of hardware it's better than nothing. -Olof -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/