From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 03:22:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: add support for the Cortex-A12 processor
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On Friday 06 December 2013, Jonathan Austin wrote:
> The A12 behaves as the A7/A15 does with respect to setting the SMP bit, and
> doesn't require TLB ops broadcasting to be explicitly enabled like the A9 does.
> 
> Note that as the ACTLR cannot (usually) be written from non-secure, it is the
> responsibility of the bootloader/firmware to set this bit per core - it is
> done here in Linux as last resort in case of bad firmware.
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin <jonathan.austin@arm.com>

I guess this one qualifies for stable backports under the "new device ID"
rule, and I'm sure people will want to have it in some longterm release.

	Arnd