[U-Boot] VEXPRESS64 ARMv8 U-Boot maintenance

Steve Rae srae at broadcom.com
Fri Dec 12 18:48:27 CET 2014



On 14-12-11 01:48 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi folks
> (David & Steve listed as AArch64/v8 maintainers),
>
> are you actively maintaining and reviewing ARM64 board
> patches?
Sadly, no.
If you would take over being maintainer for the "vexpress_aemv8a_semi" 
board, that would be appreciated.
Thanks, Steve
>
> I am working on support for the ARM Juno Development
> Platform real hardware, which is now up and running on my
> desk. I will add this board with myself as maintainer.
>
> But who takes care of the code in arch/arm/cpu/armv8?
>
> I have some questions about the rendez-vous code in the
> armv8 start.S file, as if two CPUs (master & slave) would come
> running into U-Boot, which is not what ARM Trusted Firmware
> does, it arrives only on the master CPU. Can any of you explain
> why that code is there?
>
> Else I will start looking at it and add myself as maintainer for
> this.
>
> Please also have a look at my patches to the Semihosting code:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/412628/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/412629/
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/412630/
I will look at these -- Thanks, Steve
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>


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