From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Porter Subject: Re: [PATCH] devicetree: bindings: document Broadcom CPU enable method Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:27:38 -0400 Message-ID: <20140728142738.GA2593@beef> References: <1404166185-4168-1-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1404166185-4168-1-git-send-email-elder@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Elder Cc: bcm@fixthebug.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, grant.likely@linaro.org, robh+dt@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Alex Elder wrote: > Broadcom mobile SoCs use a ROM-implemented holding pen for > controlled boot of secondary cores. A special register is > used to communicate to the ROM that a secondary core should > start executing kernel code. This enable method is currently > used for members of the bcm281xx and bcm21664 SoC families. > > The use of an enable method also allows the SMP operation vector to > be assigned as a result of device tree content for these SoCs. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder Applied to mach-bcm for-3.17/dt Thanks, Matt