[PATCH 2/6] arm64: Add DTS support for Spreadtrum's Shark64 SoC

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 02:47:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 29 September 2014 20:04:49 zhang.lyra at gmail.com wrote:
> > +	cpus {
> > +		#address-cells = <2>;
> > +		#size-cells = <0>;
> > +
> > +		cpu at 0 {
> > +			device_type = "cpu";
> > +			compatible = "arm,armv8";
> > +			reg = <0x0 0x0>;
> > +			enable-method = "spin-table";
> > +			cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x8000fff8>;
> > +		};
> 
> New platforms should avoid using "spin-table" method. Please
> change the boot loader to implement PSCI if you can.

As usual, I strongly recommend PSCI here if the CPU supports EL3. It
would solve the cpuidle kernel support as well with the generic cpuidle
driver and the PSCI back-end.

-- 
Catalin