Question regarding U-boot MultiCore SMP

[Conor Dooley]

Hey Jan,

On 2 March 2023 10:04:06 GMT, Jan Reinhard <rej at sysgo.com> wrote:
>Hello,
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>I am working on the PolarFire RISC-V icicle kit and use u-boot to start my application.
>I configured the firmware to start u-boot on all harts (cores) and found out that u-boot uses a "HART lottery system" to decide which core/hart it runs on.
>In my special case I want u-boot to start on the first hart and the other harts shall wait for the interrupt.
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>I cannot use the "saveenv" but I compile the u-boot myself. Is there a way to compile the u-boot to ignore the "HART lottery system" and use the first hart?

I'm unfortunately not that familiar with the early code in u-boot for riscv,
I'm just curious as to whether you could share more about why you
would like to boot on one hart only?

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>Thank you in advance.
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>Regards,
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