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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Carl-Erwin GRIFFITH <carl.erwin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: 82xx multiple soc support/initialization
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:25:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090526202530.GA2342@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5c90346a0905250723t2c9d30a0qd4fbebed38917cd7@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:23:37PM +0200, Carl-Erwin GRIFFITH wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> 
>  I'm working on an derived muas3001 board (kernel version 2.6.30-rc5),
> 
> and so far I did not find an example of multiple SOCs initialization.
> 
> The board has 3 cpus (only one core activated).

This is not currently supported -- there are lots of places, especially
in 82xx/CPM code, that assume there's only one instance of the SoC.

> 1) Is there a special syntax to use in the device tree ?

You'd have multiple instances of the soc node (plus kernel changes to
make this work).  You'll probably need some way of indicating which one
contains the running core.

-Scott

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-26 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-25 14:23 82xx multiple soc support/initialization Carl-Erwin GRIFFITH
2009-05-26 20:25 ` Scott Wood [this message]

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