Re: [PATCH v7 10/17] ARM64 / ACPI: Parse MADT for SMP initialization

Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-15T18:48:02Z

On 01/14/2015 09:04 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> MADT contains the information for MPIDR which is essential for
> SMP initialization, parse the GIC cpu interface structures to
> get the MPIDR value and map it to cpu_logical_map(), and add
> enabled cpu with valid MPIDR into cpu_possible_map.
>
> ACPI 5.1 only has two explicit methods to boot up SMP, PSCI and
> Parking protocol, but the Parking protocol is only specified for
> ARMv7 now, so make PSCI as the only way for the SMP boot protocol
> before some updates for the ACPI spec or the Parking protocol spec.
>
> Parking protocol patches for SMP boot will be sent to upstream when
> the new version of Parking protocol is ready.
>
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
> Tested-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki <tomasz.nowicki@linaro.org>
> ---
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>