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From: slash.tmp@free•fr (Mason)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: Steps to submit a new arch/arm port
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:09:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <560571CE.1000304@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8912441.4NjM1sFKRe@wuerfel>

On 25/09/2015 17:52, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 25 September 2015 17:28:54 Mason wrote:
>> On 25/09/2015 16:11, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Friday 25 September 2015 15:35:36 Mason wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So 'default y' enables ARCH_TANGO4 only if ARCH_TANGOX is selected,
>>>> right?
>>>
>>> You should really only have one of the two.
>>
>> I plan to add ARCH_TANGO5 in a few weeks. So I copied the layout used
>> by Samsung for EXYNOSx and TI for OMAPx.
>  
> Better start simple, I wouldn't expect there to be too much code
> that is specific to just one of them to warrant a top-level Kconfig
> option like on OMAP.

I don't understand. If I create only ARCH_TANGO4, then I'll have to
move everything around when ARCH_TANGO5 shows up... <confused>

>>>> It will build, but it won't run! My port uses the TWD for clockevents,
>>>> and smp_twd.c is only compiled if HAVE_ARM_TWD. So I must set SMP.
>>>
>>> I think this has come up before and should be fixed. Could you
>>> send a patch that allows using TWD in uniprocessor configurations?
>>
>> This was discussed here:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/389931/focus=15737
>>
>> I can re-post the same patch.
> 
> Yes, please include that patch in the series.

Just to be sure, we are talking about this patch:

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 1c5021002fe4..774dc59650c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1407,7 +1407,6 @@ config HAVE_ARM_ARCH_TIMER
 
 config HAVE_ARM_TWD
        bool
-       depends on SMP
        select CLKSRC_OF if OF
        help
          This options enables support for the ARM timer and watchdog unit
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
index 172c6a05d27f..877c1d5ec942 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/smp_twd.c
@@ -388,9 +388,6 @@ static void __init twd_local_timer_of_register(struct device_node *np)
 {
        int err;
 
-       if (!is_smp() || !setup_max_cpus)
-               return;
-
        twd_ppi = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
        if (!twd_ppi) {
                err = -EINVAL;


Regards.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-25 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-21 15:00 Steps to submit a new arch/arm port Mason
2015-09-21 15:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-22 14:36   ` Mason
2015-09-22 14:51     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-22 14:56       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-22 15:54       ` Mason
2015-09-22 16:29         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-23  8:49           ` Mason
2015-09-23  9:13             ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-23  9:21               ` Mason
2015-09-23  9:26                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-22 19:15         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-23  9:26           ` Mason
2015-09-23  9:34             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 13:06       ` Mason
2015-09-25 13:17         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 13:35           ` Mason
2015-09-25 14:11             ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 15:28               ` Mason
2015-09-25 15:33                 ` Mason
2015-09-25 15:49                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 15:52                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 16:09                   ` Mason [this message]
2015-09-25 17:20                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-28 13:48       ` Mason
2015-09-28 14:43         ` Måns Rullgård
2015-09-28 16:32         ` Mason
2015-09-28 17:29           ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-22 15:48     ` Måns Rullgård
2015-09-25  9:27   ` Mason
2015-09-25  9:46     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2015-09-25 11:56     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-09-25 12:06     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-21 15:51 ` Måns Rullgård
2015-09-21 16:13 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-09-22 16:08   ` Mason
2015-09-22 16:24     ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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