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From: sudeep.holla@arm•com (Sudeep Holla)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: ARM bigendian cpuhotplug
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:45:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541055F1.2060604@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMQ1t3q22P7UDXUhoJiThjnrS_GMdAFaSaDxRzUi8KM=pa9QQw@mail.gmail.com>



On 10/09/14 13:59, Hemanth Kumar wrote:
>> Are you referring to ARM Vexpress platform with TC2/CA15_A7 card ?
>> If yes, idle doesn't work with CONFIG_MTD_CFI irrespective of
>> endianness, it's platform limitation.
>
>> Regards,
>> Sudeep
>
>
> Thanks for the reply what is the hardware limitation for this card (VE
> CA-15_A7) when we enable CONFIG_MTD_CFI
>

The cpu resume path should ideal be on some sram or on-chip memory, but
on TC2 we use the NOR flash @0x0. When you enable NOR flash in Linux,
you can't expect it to be in read-mode always as other cpus might put
the NOR device is any mode based on its interaction. As a result when a
suspended cpu resumes it might not find the resume code if NOR was not
in read mode resulting in unpredicted behaviour. As I said before it's
purely a platform firmware limitation.

Regards,
Sudeep

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-10 12:59 ARM bigendian cpuhotplug Hemanth Kumar
2014-09-10 13:45 ` Sudeep Holla [this message]

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