From: jonathan.austin@arm•com (Jonathan Austin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: add support for the Cortex-A12 processor
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:27:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A74EF9.2090405@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201312080322.57976.arnd@arndb.de>
On 08/12/13 02:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 06 December 2013, Jonathan Austin wrote:
>> The A12 behaves as the A7/A15 does with respect to setting the SMP bit, and
>> doesn't require TLB ops broadcasting to be explicitly enabled like the A9 does.
>>
>> Note that as the ACTLR cannot (usually) be written from non-secure, it is the
>> responsibility of the bootloader/firmware to set this bit per core - it is
>> done here in Linux as last resort in case of bad firmware.
>>
>> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>
>> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm•com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm•com>
>
> I guess this one qualifies for stable backports under the "new device ID"
> rule, and I'm sure people will want to have it in some longterm release.
>
Yes, I'd say this certainly makes sense for 3.10 - though even without
this things will basically work due to the catch-all for V7A.
Happy to Cc: stable when I put this into the patch system, though
Jonny
> Arnd
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-06 15:04 [PATCH v2] ARM: add support for the Cortex-A12 processor Jonathan Austin
2013-12-06 16:31 ` Will Deacon
2013-12-08 2:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-12-10 17:27 ` Jonathan Austin [this message]
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