[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: uniphier: drop UniPhier specific SMP code

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Nov 6 14:46:31 CET 2015


On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:16:30PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> The latest Linux can directly handle SMP operations for UniPhier SoCs
> without any help of U-boot.  Drop the relevant code from U-boot.
> 
> See commit b1e4006aeda8c8784029de17d47987c21ea75f6d ("ARM: uniphier:
> rework SMP operations to use trampoline code") in Linux Kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>

So my question for you is how much of a concern is running older kernels
and newer U-Boots on these platforms?  I know that for example we
couldn't do something like that in "beagle" land, and for Allwinner
platforms we still have ways of making the older but most featureful
kernels work.

-- 
Tom
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