[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm64: add better spin-table support

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:

> There are two enable methods supported by ARM64 Linux; psci and
> spin-table.  The latter is simpler and easier to use for quick SoC
> bring-up.
>
> So, I used the spin-table for my first ARMv8 SoC porting, but I
> found its support in U-Boot was poor.  It is true there exists a
> code fragment for the spin code in arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S,
> but I see some problems:

Is part of the motivation for this approach to boot an ARMv8 system
without using the ARM Trusted Firmware?

Yours,
Linus Walleij