[U-Boot] [PATCH] omap3: Variant and revision checks for ARM Cortex-A8 errata workarounds

Nishanth Menon nm at ti.com
Mon Feb 23 23:43:12 CET 2015


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 08:16:44PM +0100, Paul Kocialkowski wrote:
>
>> Not every version and revision of the Cortex-A8 ARM core requires the same
>> errata workarounds. In addition, enabling those requires to have similar
>> workarounds enabled in the kernel or it will cause numerous segmentation faults.
>>
>> This enables those workarounds when they are needed, according to what is done
>> in Linux.
>>
>> Follow-up to the discussion from July 2013:
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/158377.html
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact at paulk.fr>
>
> Nishanth, any comments here, since you've been thinking about errata
> stuff lately?  Thanks!
>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
>

I would probably go with v7 start code triggering the logic. even
though the secure logic is probably unique..

something like CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_CP15_ERRATA or like


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Regards,
Nishanth Menon


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