linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devicetree: bindings: document Broadcom CPU enable method

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Message-ID: <20140728142738.GA2593@beef>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:27:38 -0400
From:	Matt Porter <mporter@...aro.org>
To:	Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:	bcm@...thebug.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	grant.likely@...aro.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree: bindings: document Broadcom CPU enable method

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Broadcom mobile SoCs use a ROM-implemented holding pen for
> controlled boot of secondary cores.  A special register is
> used to communicate to the ROM that a secondary core should
> start executing kernel code.  This enable method is currently
> used for members of the bcm281xx and bcm21664 SoC families.
> 
> The use of an enable method also allows the SMP operation vector to
> be assigned as a result of device tree content for these SoCs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>

Applied to mach-bcm for-3.17/dt

Thanks,
Matt
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