Re: [PATCH v7 11/17] ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get CPU hardware ID via GICC

Mark Langsdorf
2015-01-15T18:48:23Z

On 01/14/2015 09:04 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> Introduce a new function map_gicc_mpidr() to allow MPIDRs to be obtained
> from the GICC Structure introduced by ACPI 5.1.
>
> MPIDR is the CPU hardware ID as local APIC ID on x86 platform, so we use
> MPIDR not the GIC CPU interface ID to identify CPUs.
>
> Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>
> Tested-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>
> ---
Tested-by: Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@redhat.com>