[PATCH v5 6/9] ACPI/PPTT: Add topology parsing code

Rafael J. Wysocki rjw at rjwysocki.net
Mon Dec 11 17:12:11 PST 2017


On Friday, December 1, 2017 11:23:27 PM CET Jeremy Linton wrote:
> The PPTT can be used to determine the groupings of CPU's at
> given levels in the system. Lets add a few routines to the PPTT
> parsing code to return a unique id for each unique level in the
> processor hierarchy. This can then be matched to build
> thread/core/cluster/die/package/etc mappings for each processing
> element in the system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>

Why can't this be folded into patch [2/9]?

Thanks,
Rafael




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