On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:32 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:24:39AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > > This will be used to build real HW ids for the cores and enforce > some > > limits on the available cores per chip. > > Is there actually a practical reason to allow the user (or machine > type) to override the default core mask?
None other than mimmicing real HW ... some cores can be disabled on some chips and we *might* want to mimmic that for some test scenarios. Cheers, Ben.