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

Mylène Josserand mylene.josserand at bootlin.com
Tue Apr 3 13:08:39 PDT 2018


Hi,

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:48:41 +0800
Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org> wrote:

> 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

Yep, I will use a pointer instead. Thanks for the correction.

Best regards,

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