On Aug 15, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yo...@freescale.com> wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:ga...@codeaurora.org] >> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 10:26 AM >> To: Basu Arnab-B45036 >> Cc: Mark Rutland; Sharma Bhupesh-B45370; a...@arndb.de; Catalin Marinas; >> devicetree-disc...@lists.ozlabs.org; Will Deacon; Yoder Stuart-B08248; >> grant.lik...@secretlab.ca; linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] arm64: Add DTS support for FSL's LS2085A SoC >> >> >> On Aug 15, 2014, at 10:21 AM, arnab.b...@freescale.com wrote: >> >>>>> >>>>> + cpus { >>>>> + #address-cells = <2>; >>>>> + #size-cells = <0>; >>>>> + >>>>> + /* We have 4 clusters having 2 Cortex-A57 cores each */ >>>>> + cpu@0 { >>>>> + device_type = "cpu"; >>>>> + compatible = "arm,cortex-a57"; >>>>> + reg = <0x0 0x0>; >>>>> + enable-method = "spin-table"; >>>>> + cpu-release-addr = <0x0 0x8000fff8>; >>>>> + }; >>>> >>>> I would strongly recommend having a unique cpu-release-addr for each CPU. >>>> >>> >>> This is more of a place holder, we intend to patch this address from U-Boot >>> and use individual release addresses for each CPU. >> >> If you are going to patch it in u-boot, than why not just have u-boot add the >> property and drop it from here. >> >> If you intend to keep it here, than make <0x0 0x0> and add a comment that >> says >> u-boot will fill it out > > As I said to Mark re: the comment on having different release addresses > per CPU, we are just following existing practice from the existing > arch/arm64 device trees: > apm-storm.dtsi > foundation-v8.dts > rtsm_ve-aemv8a.dts > > I think one of the reasons the cpu-release-addr is not 0x0 is that > UEFI had(?)/has(?) limited ability to do device tree fix ups. It's > not a problem at all in u-boot, but there is some reason all > existing device trees have the same hardcoded address for all > CPUs. Are you guys planning on supporting UEFI on this platform? > So we want to do the standard/conventional thing here that will > allow are device trees to be used in more than u-boot. Well, I think the guys would say the standard thing is to move to PSCI. - k > > Thanks, > Stuart > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by The Linux Foundation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
