* Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> [100823 09:51]: > Hi Tony, > > > Hi all, > > > > Here are some experimental patches to allow booting ARMv7 SMP > > kernel on UP to some extent. Posting these early in case it is > > of any help as I know at least Bryan Wu is working on similar > > issues. > > > > The patches are very much work in progress, and does not quite > > boot to init yet so there's all kinds of things to fix. But at > > least these patches allow booting to the point where the fixing > > issues might be a bit easier.. Currently it boots to the point > > where there are tons of "WARNING: at mm/percpu-vm.c:320 pcpu_alloc" > > prints. > > I've got some similar hacks for the RealView boards which I've used > to build a Kernel that can boot on the PB-A8 and PBX-A9. Whilst this > is the wrong way of going about solving the problem [Russell's code > patching is a lot neater and more scaleable] you might be interested > in looking at the code anyway: > > http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=linux-2.6-wd.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/smp-up-hacks > > Only v7 cores are supported and TEX remapping is used to avoid having > to worry about setting the shared attribute at runtime. Yuck! Heh cool, I'll take a look at those :) Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
