[PATCH v2 4/4] irqchip: gic: Perform the gic_secondary_init() call via CPU notifier

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 15:31 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:32:11PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I haven't tried Versatile Express yet as it has the TC2 tile on, and I
> > > > > don't yet a boot loader on it which is capable of TFTP (which makes it
> > > > > rather useless to me - I've been saying this for a time now but this is
> > > > > probably the first time publically.)  I'm thinking about putting the
> > > > > CA9x4 tile back on because that's a lot more functionally useful to me
> > > > > than TC2.
> > > > 
> > > > You might be interested by this then:
> > > > 
> > > > http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-dev/2012-October/014136.html
> > > 
> > > Great news.  Everyone has been telling me that there's no uboot for TC2,
> > > or "we think Linaro might have something but we don't really know".
> > 
> > Note that I cobbled those instructions on my own and the result is not 
> > officially supported by Linaro.  This is obviously not suitable for 
> > setting up products or demo systems, but for a kernel developer I think 
> > such a setup is invaluable.
> 
> If I remember correctly, you will also only get 1GB of RAM available not
> the 2GB most TC2 boards have. (I did take a quick look at hacking U-Boot
> to get around that but couldn't get anything to work.)

I simply added "mem=2048m at 0x80000000" to my kernel cmdline.


Nicolas