[PATCH 01/16] ARM: b.L: secondary kernel entry code

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Thu Mar 7 02:37:17 EST 2013


Hi!

> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1579,6 +1579,12 @@ config HAVE_ARM_TWD
>  	help
>  	  This options enables support for the ARM timer and watchdog unit
>  
> +config BIG_LITTLE
> +	bool "big.LITTLE support (Experimental)"
> +	depends on CPU_V7 && SMP && EXPERIMENTAL
> +	help
> +	  This option enables support for the big.LITTLE architecture.
> +

Perhaps few lines of what big.LITTLE is would be nice here?

It is that "few high-performance cores + few low-power cores" on chip, right?

BTW... is it possible/good idea to run all the cores at the same time for 
max performance? From descriptions I understood that is not normally done
and I'd like to understand why....

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