Re: [GIT PULL] DT/core: cpu_ofnode updates for v3.12

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On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 14:21 +0100, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha wrote:
> IMO moving of handling ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s to generic code
> under
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC seems to be cleaner approach than weak definitation.
> 
> As per my understanding each thread is a different logical cpu.
> Each logical cpu is mapped to unique physical id(either present in reg
> field or legacy ibm,ppc-interrupt-server#s field). So given a logical
> cpu id we can get the cpu node corresponding to it.
> Looking @ smp_setup_cpu_maps in arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
> and the comment in the same file: "This implementation only supports
> power of 2 number of threads.." the thread id id is implicit in the
> logical cpu id. Do we need to fetch that from DT ?

I don't want those parsing routines to make those assumptions. We have
changed our logical numbering in the past and may again.

Cheers,
Ben.


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