Re: [PATCH v8 01/11] ARM: brcmstb: add infrastructure for ARM-based Broadcom STB SoCs

Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-08-02T08:21:51Z

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:33:44AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Brian Norris
> <computersforpeace@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Like what?
>
> Errata work-arounds, performance bits, etc. I don't recall exactly
> which ones are per core vs. global. I assume this is an A9, but cores
> with virt extensions would also need to drop to non-secure mode.

The kernel's bringup just before enabling the CPU deals with that stuff
provided your CPU is running in secure mode, but you are right - we /do/
want to encourage platforms to do the errata fixups before they call the
kernel via any entry point.

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