[PATCH] devicetree: bindings: document Broadcom CPU enable method

Matt Porter mporter at linaro.org
Mon Jul 28 07:27:38 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Broadcom mobile SoCs use a ROM-implemented holding pen for
> controlled boot of secondary cores.  A special register is
> used to communicate to the ROM that a secondary core should
> start executing kernel code.  This enable method is currently
> used for members of the bcm281xx and bcm21664 SoC families.
> 
> The use of an enable method also allows the SMP operation vector to
> be assigned as a result of device tree content for these SoCs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>

Applied to mach-bcm for-3.17/dt

Thanks,
Matt



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