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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2 0/4] powerpc: don't mess with SMT at boot time
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:22:31 +1100
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On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 16:13 +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> As requested by mpe, this series now covers both the smt-enabled
> kernel parameter and the ibm,smt-enabled property. The cleanup was
> split into 3 separate patches to ease review, but I guess they
> could be folded into a single patch as well.

Sorry to send you down the garden path Greg. It would have been a nice
cleanup, but seems the FSL folks still see value in smt-enabled.

So can you rework it to just ignore smt-enabled on powernv.

That should be as simple as implementing a powernv_cpu_bootable() that always
returns true.

cheers