[PATCH] ARM: shmobile: Check MD21 at SMP boot in case of APMU

Magnus Damm magnus.damm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 02:35:21 EST 2014


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:31:52PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
>> From: Magnus Damm <damm at opensource.se>
>>
>> On R-Car Gen2 SoCs such as r8a7790 and r8a7791 the hardware boot
>> mode bit MD21 indicates if hardware debug mode is enabled or not.
>>
>> In case hardware debug mode is enabled print a warning and refrain
>> from booting secondary CPU cores. Without this patch Koelsch boards
>> with SW8-4 set to OFF will hang at SMP boot.
>
> Out of interest, is this the solution to your recent SMP troubles?

Yes, one of them. =)

/ magnus



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