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authorRussell King2011-08-10 11:23:45 +0200
committerRussell King2011-08-11 11:23:49 +0200
commitc1becedc8871645278832fabdc6fe138082a495b (patch)
treee02970dc6d041680d36cd570e9dbca5cf637fbe7 /arch/arm/Kconfig
parentARM: drop experimental status for ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT (diff)
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ARM: enable ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT by default
Enable virtual to physical translation patching by default in all kernels. Hide the option behind EMBEDDED. This can still be turned off if people desire, and they know what they're doing, to shrink the size of the kernel to a minimum. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/Kconfig8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 5ebc5d922ea1..8882a535cf44 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ config VECTORS_BASE
The base address of exception vectors.
config ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
- bool "Patch physical to virtual translations at runtime"
+ bool "Patch physical to virtual translations at runtime" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
depends on !XIP_KERNEL && MMU
depends on !ARCH_REALVIEW || !SPARSEMEM
help
@@ -207,6 +208,10 @@ config ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT
of physical memory is at a 16MB boundary, or theoretically 64K
for the MSM machine class.
+ Only disable this option if you know that you do not require
+ this feature (eg, building a kernel for a single machine) and
+ you need to shrink the kernel to the minimal size.
+
config ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT_16BIT
def_bool y
depends on ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT && ARCH_MSM
@@ -301,7 +306,6 @@ config ARCH_AT91
select ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB
select HAVE_CLK
select CLKDEV_LOOKUP
- select ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT if MMU
help
This enables support for systems based on the Atmel AT91RM9200,
AT91SAM9 and AT91CAP9 processors.