[PATCH 0/4] Hacks to allow booting ARM SMP kernel on UP ARMv7

[Bryan Wu]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [100902 06:29]:
>> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 03:55:27PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > * Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> [100820 04:59]:
>> > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> [100819 13:13]:
>> > > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:57:06PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> > > > > Looks like something is not quite right with smp_on_up part of __fixup_smp,
>> > > > > returning early before smp_on_up does not produce that.
>> > > >
>> > > > It's probably overwriting some register it shouldn't be.  I might be
>> > > > able to look at this sometime during the coming week... assuming that
>> > > > the weather is as bad as they forecast and I have 'net connectivity.
>> >
>> > This seems to fix it.
>>
>> Thanks, merged that into my original patch - so here it is again with
>> everything updated.
>
> Your patch sure makes things simpler! The problem still is the
> V6 vs V7 SMP code though.
>
> Will post my six patches that apply on top of your patch as a reply to
> this mail. With those, everything seems to work, at least after testing
> on omap3630 (Cortex-A8 UP) and omap4430 (Cortex-A9 SMP).

Awesome, where can get those finalize the patches for testing? After
that I can test our Ubuntu kernel on both boards.

Thanks,
-Bryan