From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f70.google.com (mail-pg0-f70.google.com [74.125.83.70]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43836B000C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:17:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f70.google.com with SMTP id x81so2961643pgx.21 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org. [2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h70si3883658pfc.269.2018.03.15.07.17.54 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 07:17:49 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] remove eight obsolete architectures Message-ID: <20180315141749.GA27100@infradead.org> References: <20180314143529.1456168-1-arnd@arndb.de> <2929.1521106970@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <6c9d075c-d7a8-72a5-9b2d-af1feaa06c6c@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Hannes Reinecke , David Howells , linux-arch , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "open list:DOCUMENTATION" , linux-block , IDE-ML , "open list:HID CORE LAYER" , Networking , linux-wireless , linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, Linux FS-devel Mailing List , Linux-MM On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:42:25AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Is anyone producing a chip that includes enough of the Privileged ISA spec > to have things like system calls, but not the MMU parts? Various SiFive SOCs seem to support M and U mode, but no S mode or iommu. That should be enough for nommu Linux running in M mode if someone cares enough to actually port it.