[U-Boot] Uboot and ARM SMP support

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 10:18 Thu 25 Jun     , Tom wrote:
> Nishanth Menon wrote:
> >Shilimkar, Santosh said the following on 06/25/2009 04:51 PM:
> <snip>
> >>
> >>So essentially u-boot would be almost same as Cortex-A8 except you should avoid programming AuxControl
> >>register because the bit definitions are different.
> >>
> >>Hope this helps
> >so how would the new arch look like? do we do:
> >cpu/arm_cortexa8_9 and common code there?
> Given my recent experience with common code for i2c on omp24xx and omap3,
> I would prefer if they were separate and had no common code.
no sorry I'm bored to copy & paster of code everywhere specialy on arm
> 
> cpu/arm_cortexa8
> cpu/arm_cortexa9
I do not want to see this anymore
> 
> So A8 can be more easily maintained.
it will be a mess on start.S for 2 or 3 specific code line so no
> As A9 matures, it will diverge more from A8.
for now I think merge them make more sense
if it will require in the futur to separte them we will see but for now no

Best Regards,
J.