Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] target-arm: Setup smpboot code in all setups

[Adam Lackorzynski]

Hi,

On Tue Feb 15, 2011 at 10:02:05 -0500, Vincent Palatin wrote:
> >> Moving in the right direction, but it would be cleaner if the secondary
> >> CPU reset was handled inside arm_boot.c, I think (there is a TODO
> >> in that file to that effect). Then we could get rid of the cpu reset
> >> hook from realview.c.
> >
> > Like the following?
> 
> This assumes that all the ARM SMP platforms are booting their
> secondary CPU the same way as the emulated Realview.
> For example, I'm currently writing a Tegra2 (dual A9) SoC emulation
> and the second CPU is halted when the platform starts and I cannot
> re-use the current smpboot firmware chunk. My current workaround is to
> use "info->nb_cpus = 1" and do the init in the board code. Forcing the
> reset function will probably not help.

The smpboot code also halts the CPUs, i.e. they are waiting in wfi.
What would you like to have instead? Maybe it's not so different...


Adam
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