Re: Long term stable kernel seletion (3.0)

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Jan 27 2012 - 06:25:01 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 05:24:42AM +0000, naveen yadav wrote:
> Recently Greg decide and select linux 3.0 for long term.
>
> http://www.kroah.com/log/
> 3.0.y - this is the new "longterm" kernel release, it will be
> maintained for 2 years at the minimum by me.
>
> PS. Catalin+ Greg
> So I have one request from Mr. Catalin and Greg.
>
> Is ARM-15 support will be added in this or not. ?

It depends on how much Cortex-A15 support you mean. UP with classic MMU
is already supported as it's an ARMv7 processor. SMP with classic MMU
got merged in 3.1-rc1 (commit 7665d9d2df - "ARM: proc: add proc info for
Cortex-A15MP using classic page tables"). ARM LPAE was merged in 3.3-rc1
and generic timers probably during the next merging window.

ARM LPAE and generic timers are unlikely to be back-ported to 3.0
(though I have some patches around but they need considerable amount of
timer for maintaining in a long-term release).

--
Catalin
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