[PATCHv1 0/2] ARM: socfpga: Soft reset, hotplug and device tree clocks

Pavel Machek pavel at denx.de
Sun Mar 17 14:13:43 EDT 2013


Hi!

> > From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at altera.com>
> > 
> > Hi Arnd/Olof,
> > 
> > Just 2 patches for mach-socfpga:
> > 
> > 0001: ARM: socfpga: Enable hotplug and soft reset
> > 	- Able to hotplug CPU1 by putting it into reset and bringing back online.
> > 
> 
> Have you seen the discussion on PSCI? There's an ARM doc on it and
> Linaro session from last week. Is there a possibility you can use that?
> You would need to be able to run in non-secure mode and implement
> smc calls.

What would be the advantage?

We do not have suitable hypervisor at the moment. Nor I see why it
would be good to push power management into it.

(Plus, the implementation seems pretty incomplete for arm32.).

									Pavel
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