From: adharmap@codeaurora.org (Abhijeet Dharmapurikar)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] ARM: GIC: cleanup
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:23:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D065691.9010802@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101205113311.GC9138@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Sorry for being late on testing this out. The patch series and works on
the msm 8660.
Acked-By: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap@codeaurora.org>
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> This patch series cleans up the GIC code, consolidating some of the
> per-platform practices into the common GIC code.
>
> One notable change is to the initialization methods - we used to
> require platforms to pass in the address of the per-CPU interfaces
> despite them always being identical between all cores. This was
> nonsense, as even in the extremely unlikely event that they were
> different, we aren't storing them in a per-CPU manner.
>
> The GIC initialization methods are now simpler: one call to gic_init()
> from the boot CPU, and a call to gic_secondary_init() as each
> secondary CPU starts - and no need for platforms to keep track of
> the address anymore.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-05 11:33 [PATCH 0/5] ARM: GIC: cleanup Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 11:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] ARM: GIC: provide a single initialization function for boot CPU Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 21:45 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-05 11:34 ` [PATCH 2/5] ARM: GIC: Remove MMIO address from gic_cpu_init, rename to gic_secondary_init Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 21:47 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-05 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/5] ARM: GIC: consolidate gic_cpu_base_addr to common GIC code Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 22:01 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-05 11:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] ARM: GIC: move gic_data[] initialization into gic_init() Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 22:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-05 11:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] ARM: GIC: private a standard get_irqnr_preamble assembler macro Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-05 22:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-13 17:23 ` Abhijeet Dharmapurikar [this message]
2010-12-13 17:31 ` [PATCH 0/5] ARM: GIC: cleanup Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 18:11 ` Abhijeet Dharmapurikar
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