On Apr 10, 2015, at 6:03 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:37:06PM +0100, Kumar Gala wrote: >> This patch set adds support for SMP boot on the MSM8x16 family of Qualcomm SoCs. >> >> To support SMP on the MSM8x16 SoCs we need to add ARMv8/64-bit SCM interfaces to >> setup the boot/release addresses for the secondary CPUs. In addition we need >> a uniquie set of cpu ops. I'm aware the desired methods for booting secondary >> CPUs is either via spintable or PSCI. However, these SoCs are shipping with a >> firmware that does not support those methods. > > Why ? Do not tell me you were not aware of those standard methods, > because I can't believe you. > > If there were additional features to add to spin-table and PSCI, > you were, you are and you will always be welcome to debate them. > > There is no justification for this patchset, honestly. > > Lorenzo The justification for this patchset is support for a hardware platform that exists in the world. The kernel usual is willing to accept such things as long as the code is reasonable. - k -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
