Re: [Question] vendor-specific cpu enable-method

2018-09-14 Thread Masahiro Yamada
Hi. 2018-09-13 11:29 GMT+09:00 Jisheng Zhang : > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:23:35 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> >> Sorry if I am asking a stupid question. >> >> >> For arm64, there are only 2 cpu methods, psci and spin-table. >> >> Why do we still allow vendor-specific methods upstre

Re: [Question] vendor-specific cpu enable-method

2018-09-12 Thread Jisheng Zhang
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:23:35 +0900 Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Hello. > > > Sorry if I am asking a stupid question. > > > For arm64, there are only 2 cpu methods, psci and spin-table. > > Why do we still allow vendor-specific methods upstreamed > for arm 32bit ports? > > To me, it looks like So

[Question] vendor-specific cpu enable-method

2018-09-12 Thread Masahiro Yamada
Hello. Sorry if I am asking a stupid question. For arm64, there are only 2 cpu methods, psci and spin-table. Why do we still allow vendor-specific methods upstreamed for arm 32bit ports? To me, it looks like SoC vendors continue inventing different (but similar) ways to do the same thing. It