having a keyword to specify the boot cpu like memreserve?

having a keyword to specify the boot cpu like memreserve?

[Kumar Gala]

Does anyone have strong feelings about having something like:

/dts-v1/;

/boot-cpu/ 1;

As a way to specify the boot cpu w/o doing dtc -b.  (I would assume -b  
would override the value in the .dts)

- k

Re: having a keyword to specify the boot cpu like memreserve?

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:05:13AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Does anyone have strong feelings about having something like:
>
> /dts-v1/;
>
> /boot-cpu/ 1;
>
> As a way to specify the boot cpu w/o doing dtc -b.  (I would assume -b  
> would override the value in the .dts)

I've thought about implementing exactly this before.  The other option
is to somehow mark the actual boot CPU node, and have dtc pick that up
and set the boot cpu appropriately.

But there's no reason we can't support both options in the long run
(with an appropriate precedence order / error on conflicts).  And this
way is simpler to implement, so lets do it.

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