[PATCHv3 3/5] arm64: read enable-method for CPU0

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Wed Aug 14 15:02:31 EDT 2013


On Wednesday 14 August 2013 02:22 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 14 August 2013 12:20 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>> With the advent of CPU_HOTPLUG, the enable-method property for CPU0
>>> may tells us something useful (i.e. how to hotplug it back on), so
>>> we must read it along with all the enable-method for all the other CPUs.
>>>
>> Can you please expand this a bit.
>>
>>> This patch ensures that CPU0's enable-method property is read.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>>> ---
>> Am just wondering how this is useful for the boot CPU.
> 
> "Sane" systems allow the boot CPU to be hotplugged out like the others.
> 
Thats fair :)




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