[PATCH v5 11/13] ARM: sun9i: smp: Add is_sun9i field

Chen-Yu Tsai wens at csie.org
Tue Apr 3 01:48:41 PDT 2018


On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:18:34AM +0200, Mylène Josserand wrote:
>> To prepare the support of sun8i-a83t, add a field in the smp_data
>> structure to enable the case of sun9i.
>>
>> Start to handle the differences between sun9i-a80 and sun8i-a83t
>> by using this variable.
>>
>> Add an index to retrieve which structures we are using.
>
> This should have been in a separate commit, but maybe we can store a
> pointer to the array cell we're using instead of always using the
> index?

Using a pointer would also avoid some of the code movement from the
previous patch.

ChenYu



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