Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] powerpc/85xx: re-enable timebase sync disabled by KEXEC patch

From: Zhao Chenhui <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:12:07 +0800

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:42:14PM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 03:55 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote:
> > From: Li Yang <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > The timebase sync is not only necessary when using KEXEC. It should also
> > be used by normal boot up and cpu hotplug. Remove the ifdef added by
> > the KEXEC patch.
> 
> Again, no it should not be used by normal boot up (whether KEXEC support
> is enabled or not).  We should only do timebase sync when we actually
> need to (when we've actually just reset a core), and we should do it the
> way U-Boot does rather than with smp-tbsync.c.
> 
> -Scott

OK. I'll do it the way U-Boot does.
Thanks.

-chenhui