Re: [PATCH 6/7] arm: mediatek: enable gpt6 on boot up to make arch timer working

From: Yingjoe Chen
Date: Wed Oct 29 2014 - 23:23:30 EST


Hi Matthias,

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 11:28 +0100, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> 2014-10-24 15:53 GMT+02:00 Yingjoe Chen <srv_yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > I didn't saw this in v3.18-rc1, are you working on version 2 of this?
> > mt8135 and m8127 also need this fixup and we need this to have SMP
> > working.
>
> I had a discussion with Mark Rutland from ARM on this [0].
> At that point he convinced me that this was not critical.
>
> If we need this for SMP, things really change here I think.

We have some driver now, and we started to implement SMP enable method
internally. I think it is reasonable to discuss this now.
We could include this patch in our SMP patch series. Do you prefer we do
this?

Joe.C



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