[PATCH] ARM: Update SMP_ON_UP code to detect A9MPCore with 1 CPU devices

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Tue Aug 13 09:31:04 EDT 2013


On Tuesday 13 August 2013 07:19 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 07:34:13PM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
>> On Friday 02 August 2013 11:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> I think this an A9-specific register, which reads as 0 on UP A9 and reads as
>>> some form of PERIPH_BASE for SMP parts. The issue I have is when PERIPH_BASE
>>> is zero.
>>>
>> What do we do here ? Should we document this in the code and proceed ?
>> Mostly there is no platform with PERIPH_BASE = 0, so its should be fine but
>> I am open for any other alternative.
> 
> The only other alternative I can think of is forcing people to have
> CONFIG_SMP=n, but that blows away single zImage for your platform.
> 
Yep which surely we don't want considering after so much effort we
have it working first place. How about going ahead with assumption
that PERIPH_BASE = 0 case doesn't work.

Regards,
Santosh




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