[PATCH 0/5] ARM: DT: remove redundant DT related code

Michal Simek monstr at monstr.eu
Tue Jul 23 08:31:22 EDT 2013


On 07/23/2013 01:32 PM, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> From: Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha at arm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As part of my changes to remove duplicate code for parsing cpu nodes
> in the device tree, I found few unnecessary code mostly around smp_init_cpus.
> Most of the ARM Cortex A9 based platforms use SCU to get the number of cpus
> while many others depend on the device tree.
> 
> Even on DT based platforms using SCU, they can be made to depend on DT
> to cpu count simplifying smp_init_cpus. In fact arm_dt_init_cpu_maps called
> before smp_init_cpus, already does the device tree parsing, validating
> nr_cpu_ids and setting the cpu_possible_mask appropriately. 
> 
> However this series targets only the platforms using DT for cpu count
> (i.e. not using SCU)

Just a note. Zynq is using SCU to get cpu count not DT.

Thanks,
Michal

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