[PATCH v4 01/10] ARM: armv7: add non-SPL enable for Cortex SMPEN

[Ralph Siemsen]

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 4:21 PM Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at mailbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/17/23 20:26, Ralph Siemsen wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 07:04:15PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> You could send this patch as a separate one.
> >
> > In fact I did that almost a year ago:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20220421175202.2614945-1-ralph.siemsen@linaro.org/T/#u
>
> Hmmm, Tom (+Cc) pointed out the patch does not do anything, but that is
> not correct, is it ? If I look at 2564fce7eea3 ("sunxi: move Cortex
> SMPEN setting into start.S") , this extra Kconfig symbol just makes that
> functionality available outside of SPL (i.e. in normal U-Boot), while
> before this change the functionality was only available in SPL. Right ?

Correct, my patch makes the symbol available outside of SPL.

I think Tom's objection was to adding the symbol without any users.
This is rectified by patch 07 ("ARM: rzn1: basic support"),

Ralph