[PATCH v5 05/12] ARM: shmobile: r8a7792: add SMP support

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Jun 15 22:19:06 PDT 2016


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 01:43:48PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> On 6/15/2016 5:30 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> >>Add R8A7792 SMP support using the shared APMU code. This SoC has 2 ARM
> >>Cortex-A15  CPU cores.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com>
> >
> >I apologise for not raising this earlier.
> >
> >I would like you to remove SMP support from this series as I do
> >not wish to merge any more per-SoC C SMP code for Gen-2 SoCs.
> >
> >Rather, I believe the future is to use generic code to support
> >the APMU hardware and then describe it in DT. Something like this:
> >
> >http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg45229.html
> 
>    Sigh...
> 
> >As that code is not merged my suggestion is that we merge UP r8a7792 for
> >now. This is the same approach that has been taken for the r8a7793.
> 
>    It should be enough to drop the SMP patch from the series. Could you do
> it or should I repost again?

Sure, I think that is reasonable.

I have queued up the series with the following modifications:

* Omitted: "[PATCH v5 05/12] ARM: shmobile: r8a7792: add SMP support"
* Omitted cpu1 node from " [PATCH v5 06/12] ARM: dts: r8a7792: initial SoC device tree"



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