[U-Boot] Uboot and ARM SMP support

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Thu Jun 25 10:10:12 CEST 2009


On 13:08 Thu 25 Jun     , Sudeep K N wrote:
> >> I have seen the latest Uboot code there is no support for Cortex A9.
> >> What I would like to know is that can we reuse ARM Cortex A8 code
> >> for ARM Cortex A9 SMP system as bootloader must run in single core.
> > Yes you can re-use the A8 code but you will need to update the cache
> > management to boot you soc in smp mode
> Do we need this if the bootmonitor/prebootloader is putting second
> core to WFE state?
I do not known what do other preloader and always try avoid it
but in u-boot we will use only one core
we can boot amp on some soc but no arm for now

Best Regards,
J.


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