No other reason. Just avoid doing it again at boot time in kernel. -Chenhui
________________________________________ From: Kumar Gala [ga...@kernel.crashing.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 23:10 To: Zhao Chenhui-B35336 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/17] powerpc/85xx: do not sync time base at boot time On Apr 3, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Zhao Chenhui wrote: > From: Chen-Hui Zhao <chenhui.z...@freescale.com> > > The bootloader have done time base sync for all cores, so skip > the synchronization process at boot time of kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Zhao Chenhui <chenhui.z...@freescale.com> > Signed-off-by: Li Yang <le...@freescale.com> > Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <aflem...@freescale.com> > --- > arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/smp.c | 8 ++++++++ > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) What harm is there in doing the sync? I'm sure there is another reason you want to skip the TB sync that should be conveyed in the commit message. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev