6 Nov
2015
6 Nov
'15
2:46 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:16:30PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
The latest Linux can directly handle SMP operations for UniPhier SoCs without any help of U-boot. Drop the relevant code from U-boot.
See commit b1e4006aeda8c8784029de17d47987c21ea75f6d ("ARM: uniphier: rework SMP operations to use trampoline code") in Linux Kernel.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
So my question for you is how much of a concern is running older kernels and newer U-Boots on these platforms? I know that for example we couldn't do something like that in "beagle" land, and for Allwinner platforms we still have ways of making the older but most featureful kernels work.
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Tom