[PATCH 0/5] ARM: DT: remove redundant DT related code
Sudeep KarkadaNagesha
Sudeep.KarkadaNagesha at arm.com
Wed Jul 24 06:48:30 EDT 2013
On 23/07/13 20:45, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2013, 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)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sudeep
> For the whole series:
>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
>
Thanks for the review.
Regards,
Sudeep
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