[PATCH 0/5] ARM: GIC: cleanup

Abhijeet Dharmapurikar adharmap at codeaurora.org
Mon Dec 13 12:23:29 EST 2010


Sorry for being late on testing this out. The patch series and works on 
the msm 8660.

Acked-By: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap at codeaurora.org>


Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> This patch series cleans up the GIC code, consolidating some of the
> per-platform practices into the common GIC code.
> 
> One notable change is to the initialization methods - we used to
> require platforms to pass in the address of the per-CPU interfaces
> despite them always being identical between all cores.  This was
> nonsense, as even in the extremely unlikely event that they were
> different, we aren't storing them in a per-CPU manner.
> 
> The GIC initialization methods are now simpler: one call to gic_init()
> from the boot CPU, and a call to gic_secondary_init() as each
> secondary CPU starts - and no need for platforms to keep track of
> the address anymore.

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