From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: kgene.kim@samsung.com (Kukjin Kim) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:49:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v3 09/12] ARM: EXYNOS: add support get_core_count() for EXYNOS5250 In-Reply-To: <201203131615.49846.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1331652643-12626-1-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <1331652643-12626-10-git-send-email-kgene.kim@samsung.com> <201203131615.49846.arnd@arndb.de> Message-ID: <4F603F81.8040505@samsung.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 03/13/12 09:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2012, Kukjin Kim wrote: >> The EXYNOS5250 has two Cortex-A15 cores and there's no >> need to call scu_enable() in platform_smp_prepare_cpus(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Kukjin Kim > > Can you explain this patch more? It only seems to make the > code less generic, but there is no indication if calling > the scu_get_core_count() function is actually wrong on > exynos5. > Contrary to Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15 has no regarding scu register so EXYNO5250 can not get the number of core from that like EXYNOS4 SoCs. Thanks. Best regards, Kgene. -- Kukjin Kim , Senior Engineer, SW Solution Development Team, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.