On 03/04/2013 05:05 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: > The CPU cores in Tegra contain some errata. Workarounds must be applied > for these every time a CPU boots. Implement those workarounds directly > in the Tegra-specific CPU reset vector. > > Many of these workarounds duplicate code in the core ARM kernel. > > However, the core ARM kernel cannot enable those workarounds when > building a multi-platform kernel, since they require writing to secure- > only registers, and a multi-platform kernel often does not run in secure > mode, and also cannot generically/architecturally detect whether it is > running in secure mode, and hence cannot either unconditionally or > conditionally apply these workarounds. > > Instead, the workarounds must be applied in architecture-specific reset > code, which is able to have more direct knowledge of the secure/normal > state. On Tegra, we will be able to detect this using a non-architected > register in the future, although we currently assume the kernel runs only > in secure mode. Other SoCs may never run the kernel in secure mode, and > hence always rely on a secure monitor to enable the workarounds, and > hence never implement them in the kernel.
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