From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: Get rid of struct cpu_table
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:14:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150313141427.GB17279@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu-H=q7HsFx-BAUPOOxsA9O7VT=zz4B8rJ5P2_CmF4oLNw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 02:33:27PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 13 March 2015 at 13:02, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
> > struct cpu_table is an artifact left from the (very) early days of
> > the arm64 port, and its only real use is to allow the most beautiful
> > "AArch64 Processor" string to be displayed at boot time.
>
> Heh, I looked at that code and assumed it was there for a reason.
> Apparently not :-)
There's a very good reason _not_ to be there: it encourages people to
add implementation specific tweaks to the early kernel boot code. These
must be done in firmware or boot-loader.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-13 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-13 12:02 [PATCH] arm64: Get rid of struct cpu_table Marc Zyngier
2015-03-13 12:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-13 13:33 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-13 14:03 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-03-13 14:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-13 14:14 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2015-03-17 16:14 ` Mark Rutland
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