Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] CPU enable method based SMP/hotplug + MSMconversion

[Mark Rutland]

Hi Stephen,

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 10:19:11PM +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Ping? Can anyone take a look at the generic ARM and DT binding patches
> and provide acks/reviews? I'd like to send this through arm-soc via the
> MSM tree if possible.

Apologies for the delay. It's taking a while to warm up after christmas.

> 
> On 12/23/13 16:39, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > This is a rework of patches sent a months back by Rohit[1].
> > The goal of these patches is to add support for SMP and (basic)
> > hotplug on MSM based SoCs. To get there, we add support for a
> > generic way to hook in SMP/hotplug support code based on DT. To
> > show how it's used, we convert the MSM8660 SMP support code over
> > to the new method. After that we add support for the rest of the
> > upstream MSM SoCs (note these patches are piled high on top of
> > Rohit's patches to add 8074 support to MSM[2] and my follow ups[3,4],
> > but this should only matter to the MSM maintainers).
> >
> > This is one of the last items of code that still requires us to have
> > a mach directory and a machine descriptor. We should be able to move
> > the hotplug/smp code out of mach directories if this approach is
> > accepted.

Thanks for doing the rework. This looks really good to me now.

I'd gotten myself confused while reading the bindings, but having now
had a look over the dts files my concerns were invalid.

Hopefully we can move more platforms to use enable-methods now :)

Cheers,
Mark.
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