On Tuesday 03 May 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Such a SoC may wish to do things differently from the current approach > (which is basically bring up all cores at boot) particularly as the > performance gained from each CPU is far from identical. So I've been > nervous about moving the CPU map initialization into core code. > > Note that the low power CPU may not be the last in the set, so merely > limiting the system to two CPUs is not the answer. If I read the patches correctly, it's still strictly opt-in per platform. When a platform wants to support the setup you mentioned or something even stranger, all it would have to do is provide its own versions of the SMP pen and scu init function, right? Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
