On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Chen-Yu Tsai <w...@csie.org> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, Dave, > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Chen-Yu Tsai <w...@csie.org> wrote: >> This is v4 of my sun9i SMP/hotplug support series which was started >> over two years ago [1]. We've tried to implement PSCI for both the A80 >> and A83T. Results were not promising. The issue is that these two chips >> have a broken security extensions implementation. If a specific bit is >> not burned in its e-fuse, most if not all security protections don't >> work [2]. Even worse, non-secure access to the GIC become secure. This >> requires a crazy workaround in the GIC driver which probably doesn't work >> in all cases [3]. >> >> Version 3 completely did away with the MCPM framework, instead just >> implementing a set of smp_ops. Most of the code from the previous >> version was reused, so the structure still has some traces of MCPM. >> As our hardware has CCI-400, we still need some sort of MMU/cache >> disabled trampoline code to enable cache coherency. Code for this >> was adapted from the MCPM framework. This and the entry code are done >> in inline assembly. Most of the other sunxi-specific code is derived >> from Allwinner code and documentation, with some references to the >> other MCPM implementations, as well as the Cortex's Technical Reference >> Manuals for the power sequencing stuff. >> >> In version 4, all traces of MCPM have been removed, except in the >> comments for atttributing code sources. Thumb2 mode is also fixed. >> It failed due to an unaligned word access. > > Any more comments on this series? Or is it OK for you guys now that > there are no traces of MCPM? :) > > We'll merge this series later this week for 4.17 if nothing else.
Merged for 4.17. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linux-sunxi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
