Adding Santosh to loop who has pushed the OMAP4 SMP support into Kernel.org
>-----Original Message----- >From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [mailto:plagn...@jcrosoft.com] >Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:44 AM >To: Nishanth Menon >Cc: Sudeep K N; u-boot@lists.denx.de; Pandita, Vikram; Tom >Subject: Re: [U-Boot] Uboot and ARM SMP support > >On 12:47 Thu 25 Jun , Nishanth Menon wrote: >> Sudeep K N said the following on 06/25/2009 12:11 PM: >> > Sorry, may be I confused you. >> > I indent to use only one core for u-boot. >> > I wanted to ask whether we need to update the cache >> > management to boot for ARM Cortex A9 SMP if we take >> > ARM Cortex A8 code as base. >> > I have tried and did not require any change on top of A8 code >> > to run u-boot on A9 SMP. >> > Is that right approach? >> > >> > >> you may want to see [1] how this was done for OMAP4 (which has a SMP >> cortex A9)-> we can discuss how to setup cortex_a9 in mainline u-boot. >> >> My thought would be: cpu/arm_cortexa9 - considering that a9 cores could >> be from 1 to 4 or so if my memory serves right -> btw, I wonder how SMP >> handling is done in u-boot today.. >for arm I've only a theorical design as I've no SMP board for now >but I want to see SMP boot & AMP boot supported in Mainline > >Best Regards, >J. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
