linux-kernel - Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/2] ARM: sun6i: Add SMP support for the Allwinner A31

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Message-ID: <20131113214554.GC3538@lukather>
Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:45:54 +0100
From:	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-sunxi@...glegroups.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, kevin.z.m.zh@...il.com,
	sunny@...winnertech.com, shuge@...winnertech.com,
	zhuzhenhua@...winnertech.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-sunxi] [PATCH 2/2] ARM: sun6i: Add SMP support for the
 Allwinner A31

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:48:05PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > Anyway, once I get to the point of being able to do something I'll
> > > coordinate with Marc etc and figure out what to do. In the meantime I
> > > think having the kernel do the bringup (like this patch does) is
> > > sensible. It's very likely to be what we want to do in the absence of
> > > any instruction to the contrary (DTB or otherwise) in the future anyway.
> > 
> > Yep.
> > 
> > A part from the discussion on the approach, do you have any comments
> > on the patches themselves?
> 
> I know approximately diddly about how one is supposed to bring up these
> processors, but I did correlate what you were doing as best I could with
> the A20 manual for the registers and it looked sensible to me, modulo
> the fact that I was looking at the manual for a slightly different
> processor ;-)
> 
> Not a terribly strong statement, sorry.

Fair enough :)

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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