Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:34:43 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/4] SMP support for Broadcom NSP |
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 12:51:17AM -0500, Kapil Hali wrote: > Hi, > > This series adds SMP support for Broadcom's Northstar Plus SoC. > > There are similar SMP enablement methods for many ARMv7 bsed SoCs. > BCM NSP SoC, has a typical such mechanism - after power-on, the > secondary core is held in a standby state, primary core provides a > startup address for the secondary core and wakes it up. Booting of > the secondary core is serialized using pen_release global variable.
Why do you need the pen_release stuff? The above implies that you have only one secondary core, and you can control when it comes out of standby state.
Please, don't assume that the pen_release stuff is any kind of recommended or standardised system. It isn't. It's a hack for ARMs evaluation platforms.
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