Standard/common method for booting secondary cores

[Mark Rutland]

Hi,

> With the current push for CONFIG_ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM,
> I'm wondering if things like starting secondary cores
> have been "standardized"/factorized to the point where
> I can just use some default implementation?

PSCI [1] exists for this, and is supported by Linux.

Mark.

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.den0022c/DEN0022C_Power_State_Coordination_Interface.pdf