[U-Boot] Uboot and ARM SMP support

Tom
2009-06-25T15:18:51Z

Nishanth Menon wrote:
> Shilimkar, Santosh said the following on 06/25/2009 04:51 PM:
>
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>> So essentially u-boot would be almost same as Cortex-A8 except you should avoid programming AuxControl
>> register because the bit definitions are different.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>>
> so how would the new arch look like? do we do:
> cpu/arm_cortexa8_9 and common code there?
>
Given my recent experience with common code for i2c on omp24xx and omap3,
I would prefer if they were separate and had no common code.

cpu/arm_cortexa8
cpu/arm_cortexa9

So A8 can be more easily maintained.
As A9 matures, it will diverge more from A8.

Tom

> Regards,
> Nishanth Menon
>