[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/3] bcm2835: Reserve the spin table in efi memory map

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Sun Nov 6 04:07:36 CET 2016


On 11/02/2016 03:36 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Firmware provides a spin table on the raspberry pi. This table shouldn't
> get overwritten by payloads, so we need to mark it as reserved.

This is probably fine for now so,
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org>

However in the long term I wonder if U-Boot shouldn't find out the spin 
table address from the FW-provided DTB, then boot all CPUs into a 
spin-table implementation that's provided by U-Boot. That would avoid 
having to hard-code the address/size of the spin table code/data in 
U-Boot, which in theory at least could change to an arbitrary location 
in a future FW release.


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