Re: [PATCH 2/2] armv8: aarch32: Add SMP support for 32-bit Linux kernel

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] armv8: aarch32: Add SMP support for 32-bit Linux kernel
Date	2016-09-23 14:00 +0200
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On Friday, September 23, 2016 10:19:06 AM CEST Alison Wang wrote:
> The patch adds SMP support for running 32-bit Linux kernel for
> Layerscape platforms. Spin-table method is used for SMP support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alison Wang <alison.wang@nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chenhui Zhao <chenhui.zhao@nxp.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/common.h          |  1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/mach-layerscape.c |  1 +
>  arch/arm/mach-imx/platsmp.c         | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+)
> 

This really shouldn't be needed: if it works on a 64-bit kernel
without platform specific SMP operations, why do you need it on 32-bit
kernels?

	Arnd

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