Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/setup_{32, 64}.c: remove unneeded boot_cpuid{, _phys}

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 03:29 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 22:24 -0600, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> >> boot_cpuid and init_thread_info.cpu are redundant, just use the
> >> var that stays around longer and add a define to make boot_cpuid
> >> point at the correct value
> >>
> >> boot_cpudid_phys is not needed and can completly go away from the
> >> SMP case, we leave it there for the non-SMP case since the paca
> >> struct is not around to store this info
> >>
> >> This patch also has the effect of having the logical cpu number
> >> of the boot cpu be updated correctly independently of the ordering
> >> of the cpu nodes in the device tree.
> >
> > So what about head_fsl_booke.S comparing boot_cpuid to -1 ? That seems
> > to be broken now in at least 2 ways, boot_cpuid doesn't exist anymore
> > and you don't initialize it to -1 either...
> 
> This is 4/5 which is also waiting for your review.
> 
> http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2011-October/093474.html

Ah missed that. This is FSL specific, I'd need Kumar and/or Scott's ack
for that one.

Cheers,
Ben.