[PATCH] ARM: imx: do not bring up unavailable cores

Shawn Guo shawn.guo at linaro.org
Tue Apr 2 22:47:21 EDT 2013


On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:38:26PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> > The bootloader doesn't know the core numbers, unless we have code in
> > bootloader to find it out by reading fuse bit or SCU register that the
> > i.MX6 DualLite has one or two cores available.
> 
> U-boot does read SCU register and can identify Quad/Dual-Lite/Solo/Solo-lite.

Ah, great.  I haven't checked the U-Boot code for some time.  But does
U-Boot remove cpu nodes of those unavailable cores from device tree
before passing it to kernel?

Shawn




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