On Wed, Sep 01, 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> Because it adds a sub-arch, revision-specific override into generic
> architecture code (vfpmodule.c)
> 
> To do this elegantly with a hope to get it to mainline, we'd need a way to
> disable the hwcap through some board-specific fixup code that can check the
> revision of the board at runtime.
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems after talking to Nicolas that mdesc->fixup() is
> called too early.
> 
> Nicolas suggested linking the i.MX5 code _after_ the VFP module :)

 Sounds like a plan!

> Another solution is that we could perhaps add code in the board init function
> to check the cpu revision and if NEON was enabled, then stop booting.

 Would be a good workaround if the elegant version takes too long

-- 
Loïc Minier

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