From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jonathan.austin@arm.com (Jonathan Austin) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:27:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2] ARM: add support for the Cortex-A12 processor In-Reply-To: <201312080322.57976.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1386342282-8769-1-git-send-email-jonathan.austin@arm.com> <201312080322.57976.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <52A74EF9.2090405@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 08/12/13 02:22, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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 >> Acked-by: Will Deacon >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Austin > > 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. > Yes, I'd say this certainly makes sense for 3.10 - though even without this things will basically work due to the catch-all for V7A. Happy to Cc: stable when I put this into the patch system, though Jonny > Arnd >