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

Olof Johansson olof at austin.ibm.com
Wed Nov 17 10:32:50 EST 2004


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:25 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
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>> > kexec has to do the device-tree flattening anyway ... adding/modifying
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>>>that property 'on the fly' while doing so is easy...
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>>Why cant it reuse the boot one or preprepare one? Thats better than
>>doing the work after the machine has oopsed isnt it?
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>Might be an issue with hotplug hardware...
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Hotplug events would reasonably trigger re-flattenings of the new device 
tree, etc. There'd be a window where the new tree might not be built, 
but it can be dealt with separately.


-Olof



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