From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre) Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:54:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Per SoC descriptor In-Reply-To: <8605786.uz70QLLSTu@wuerfel> References: <1315501212-1820-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <8605786.uz70QLLSTu@wuerfel> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 08 September 2011 18:00:09 Marc Zyngier wrote: > > This is my first stab at an idea that has floated around for a while, > > which is to have a per-soc descriptor containing most of the SoC > > specific operations, which should clear the path a bit more towards > > the single zImage holy grail. It's as far as possible from being > > perfect, but I thought I'd share it as early as possible and see what > > people think of it. > > > > This first patch series introduces the arm_soc_desc structure, adds > > per-soc SMP and CPU hotplug operations, and converts both RealView and > > VExpress to this new scheme. > > Very nice, I definitely like the concept! This is going to be really > helpful reducing the amount of stuff we need in machine descriptors. Agreed. And starting up with things that are not already in the per-machine descriptor is a good move. Once this is well established then we might consider moving some features over from the machine desc to this SOC desc. Nicolas