Resend [PATCH 00/10] ARM: SMP initialization consolidation

Stephen Boyd sboyd at codeaurora.org
Sat Apr 30 01:58:33 EDT 2011


On 04/29/2011 07:08 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>
> Resending since the patches didn't make it thru the 1st time.
>
> In order to avoid duplicating the same platform code yet again for a new 
> platform, this series consolidates platforms using similar SMP startup code to
> a common implementation. A new kconfig entry SMP_COMMON_PEN is added for
> platforms using the common pen functions.
>
> OMAP uses a h/w mechansism for its pen, but it seems like it could use the same
> mechansism.

Have you seen Russell's response to similar attempts posted a few months
back?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/30/243

and

http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2010-November/001663.html

Just something to look over and consider.

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