[PATCH v3 4/4] ARM: BCM: Add SMP support for Broadcom 4708

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Fri Nov 6 15:41:21 PST 2015


On 11/07/2015 12:27 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 11:54 PM, Jon Mason wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:42:41PM +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>> On 11/06/2015 10:11 PM, Kapil Hali wrote:
>>>> From: Jon Mason <jonmason at broadcom.com>
>>>>
>>>> Add SMP support for Broadcom's 4708 SoCs.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jonmason at broadcom.com>
>>>> Acked-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
>>>> Tested-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kapil Hali <kapilh at broadcom.com>
>>>
>>> I tested this on a Netgear R6250 V1 (BCM4708) and SMP worked.
>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>  arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm4708.dtsi | 2 ++
>>>>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig      | 1 +
>>>>  arch/arm/mach-bcm/Makefile     | 3 +++
>>>>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ config ARCH_BCM_NSP
>>>>  config ARCH_BCM_5301X
>>>>  	bool "Broadcom BCM470X / BCM5301X ARM SoC" if ARCH_MULTI_V7
>>>>  	select ARCH_BCM_IPROC
>>>
>>> You activated ARM_ERRATA_764369 for NSP is this not needed for NS?
>>
>> I'm not certain the CPU version, and without that it is difficult to
>> know what errata's are present in the underlying hardware.  My guess
>> is that all present in NSP are present in NS (for UP and SMP).  This
>> would put it as:
>>         select ARM_ERRATA_754322
>>         select ARM_ERRATA_775420
>>         select ARM_ERRATA_764369 if SMP
>>
>> Would you like me to have them added?
>>
> 
> I will send a separate patch adding all the workarounds for erratas in
> the CPU core and the cache controller.
> 
> Hauke
> 
> 
Hi,

BCM4708 uses a Cortex-A9 rev r3p0 and a L2C-310 rev r3p2. For this CPU
and cache controller the same workaround are needed as for NSP, if you
will resend this patch, please add all of them.

Hauke



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