[PATCH 2/6] ARM: add Highbank core platform support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Aug 25 11:59:54 EDT 2011


On Thursday 25 August 2011, Rob Herring wrote:
> Looking at this some more, it doesn't work too well. platsmp.c depends
> on CONFIG_SMP, but the SCU mapping is always needed even for !SMP
> because the SCU has a power mode register for each core used by the
> power controller. So putting it in platsmp.c would add ifdefs.
> 
> So I'll move out the lluart mapping, but keep SCU mapping in highbank.c.
> 

Ok, makes sense. Another alternative would be to have multiple mappings
for this: one local to the platsmp file and another one local to the
power management code. However, that is ugly for other reasons.

	Arnd



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