Re: [PATCH 2/4] ARM: sunxi: mc-smp: Use DT enable-method for sun9i A80 SMP

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Mar 09 2018 - 18:50:56 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:00:10PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Instead of having an early init function check the machine compatible
> and installing multi-cluster SMP support for the A80 if it matches,
> use a new cpu enable-method string. This makes the platform support
> future proof in case anyone manages to add PSCI support.
>
> The original init code for the SMP support is changed into the
> .prepare_cpus callback in the smp_operations structure. Instead of
> panicing when resources are missing like on some platforms, our code
> merely guards against engaging SMP or CPU hotplug and returns an error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/cpus.txt | 1 +

Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

> arch/arm/mach-sunxi/mc_smp.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)