Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Hacks to allow booting ARM SMP kernel on UP ARMv7

From: [email-masked] (Tony Lindgren)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:38:11 +0300

* Russell King - ARM Linux <[email-masked]> [100817 18:33]:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 05:12:11PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Great, will give it a try hopefully tomorrow. Sounds like that's the way
> > to deal with fixing up things when booting up older UP ARMv6 without the
> > 32v6 support :)
> 
> What I've also been debating about is adding another word to the
> smpalt structure, that being a set of flags which denote the situation
> where the alternative should be used.
> 
> That means we can use it to do individual word replacements for SMP vs
> UP, ARMv6 vs ARMv6k etc.

Sounds good to me. Maybe it should then be called cpualt instead of smpalt?

Tried booting your patch and needed the following fix for Cortex-A8 UP.

Now it boots to the following error:

Machine configuration botched (nr -1073741824), unable to continue.

Does some struct size need to be changed or something?

Regards,

Tony
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