[PATCH 01/14] ARM: mvebu: fix randconfig builds for pmsu driver

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Tue Jun 17 08:17:00 PDT 2014


Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:03:28 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> > So noMMU builds are supported in a single image with MMU builds?
> 
> It's not supported yet, but I have a patch to do that, which I used for
> testing this code. I try to have the platform code ready before submitting
> the main patch.

Ok.

> > This unfortunately isn't really correct, and the patch I sent in
> > "[PATCH] ARM: mvebu: select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND for Marvell EBU v7
> > platforms" on June, 11th already fixes the cpu_suspend()/cpu_resume()
> > problem.
> 
> ok.
> 
> > The issue with your solution is that it assumes this function is only
> > used for cpuidle. That is indeed the case in v3.16, but will be wrong
> > as soon as we add CPU hotplug support, which I have posted on May, 30th
> > in "[PATCH 0/5] CPU hotplug for Marvell Armada XP", and which I hope to
> > see included in v3.17.
> 
> Right. I'll drop this patch from the submission then. You came just in
> time, as I had originally planned to send it out this morning.
> 
> I'll also follow up with a separate patch to address the isb() issue.

Ok, thanks a lot!

So, should my patch adding the "select ARM_CPU_SUSPEND" be taken by
Jason and then pushed to you, or will you apply it directly?

Thanks!

Thomas
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