[PATCH] ppc64: Make early processor spinup based on physical ids

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 17 10:18:26 EST 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:15 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> > Why don't you put it in a property instead ? I'm against adding things
> > to the structure itself unless absolutely necessary.
> 
> It requires you to scan the device tree and modify it if you kexec boot
> off a different cpu. Possible but it is extra work, especially on a
> crashdump kexec where you want to do the minimum work on kexec.

kexec has to do the device-tree flattening anyway ... adding/modifying
that property 'on the fly' while doing so is easy...

Ben.





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