[PATCH v2] ARM: add support for the Cortex-A12 processor
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Dec 6 11:31:37 EST 2013
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:04:42PM +0000, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> The A12 behaves as the A7/A15 does with respect to setting the SMP bit, and
> doesn't require TLB ops broadcasting to be explicitly enabled like the A9 does.
>
> Note that as the ACTLR cannot (usually) be written from non-secure, it is the
> responsibility of the bootloader/firmware to set this bit per core - it is
> done here in Linux as last resort in case of bad firmware.
>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin at arm.com>
> ---
> This V2 patch also adds A12 in asm/cputype.h, necessary for KVM, perf, among
> other things.
Ok, please put this in the patch system to supercede your eartlier version.
Will
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