Hi,

I was wondering if I could have any input on the patch below activating
hypervisor mode on TI OMAP5-based SoC. The patch essentially uses the
on-chip ROM code API to enable hypervisor mode on the primary A15 core
and goes in tandem with a Linux kernel patch recently accepted into
omap-for-v3.19/fixes that checks hypervisor mode on the primary A15 core
and sets it accordingly on additional cores being activated.

I am aware that there is some development going on for ARM's PSCI that
amongst other things is supposed to deal with hypervisor activation in a
more generic fashion and I am wondering if there is any preference on
how to properly activate hypervisor mode for the TI SoCs mentioned above.

Thanks,
Frank

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u-boot patch:

Enable hypervisor mode for AM5726
---
 arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S
index 86c0e42..696da4b 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv7/omap-common/lowlevel_init.S
@@ -19,7 +19,20 @@
 ENTRY(save_boot_params)
        ldr     r1, =OMAP_SRAM_SCRATCH_BOOT_PARAMS
        str     r0, [r1]
+/*
+ * Turn on hypervisor mode on CPU#0
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_DRA7XX_HYPERVISOR_ON
+       mov     r0, lr          @ This is a great place to switch into hyp mode
+                               @ only the r0 was needed from _start and is now
+                               @ free; all other general purpose registers were
+                               @ already free.
+       ldr     r12, =0x102     @ Set PL310 control register - value in R0
+       .word   0xe1600070      @ SMC #0 - hand assembled because -march=armv5
+                               @ call ROM Code API to set control register
+#else
        bx      lr
+#endif /* CONFIG_DRA7XX_HYPERVISOR_ON */
 ENDPROC(save_boot_params)
  ENTRY(set_pl310_ctrl_reg)

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Link to the corresponding Linux kernel patch:

http://linux-kernel.2935.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-ARM-omap5-dra7xx-Enable-booting-secondary-CPU-in-HYP-mode-td1009407.html#a1014616

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