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

From: Maxime Ripard
Date: Wed Nov 13 2013 - 16:50:14 EST


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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