On 2015-04-18 08:56, Maxime Ripard wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:53:24PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> On 2015-04-16 18:43, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:37:35PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>>> On 2015-04-16 18:16, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:04:22AM +0800, GP Orcullo wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:05:05PM +0800, GP Orcullo wrote: >>>>>>>>> Tested on a Cubieboard2 with v3.16.7-ckt9 kernel. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Does not sunxi have GPIO ? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Gilles. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> There's no GPIO driver in the mainline kernel. The original sunxi >>>>>>> kernel has incomplete support for GPIOs. >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok, what about timer and tsc? Basically, you should run through the >>>>>> ARM porting guide and check every modification to be made. And if >>>>>> you have done so, the commit message should mention it. >>>>> >>>>> sunxi is pretty generic ARMv7-class in that regard, but double-checking >>>>> is surely better. >>>> >>>> armv7 does not mean a particular timer. Cortex A9 or cortex A15 do, >>>> but different ones, and Cortex A8 does not for instance. The >>>> processor we are talking about is probably not a cortex A9 since on >>>> I-pipe, there is no timer or tsc defined on A9 when booting in UP >>>> mode (and GP Orcullo is booting in UP mode). So my question is not >>>> about "double-checking", it is rather the first check. >>> >>> The A20 is a dual-core Cortex A7. >> >> Strange that GP Orcullo is not running the kernel in SMP mode then. > > The A20 uses PSCI to implement its SMP ops, which requires some > cooperation from the bootloader. Maybe he just has a too ancient > bootloader.
Recent upstream U-boot is a must, of course. I think the upstream kernel never supported SMP without PSCI, and the now obsolete sunxi U-boot was lacking that feature. Jan -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 181 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://www.xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/attachments/20150418/b187c19f/attachment.sig> _______________________________________________ Xenomai mailing list [email protected] http://www.xenomai.org/mailman/listinfo/xenomai
