RFC: merging of cputables between ppc32/64
Kumar Gala
kumar.gala at freescale.com
Fri Sep 9 04:42:34 EST 2005
I was hoping to get some idea on which direction we wanted to head
with cputable between ppc32/64. The only major difference that
exists between the two is the use of cpu_setup().
On ppc32, cpu_setup is called for each processor in an SMP
configuration. Which gives us the following signature:
typedef void (*cpu_setup_t)(unsigned long offset, int cpu_nr, struct
cpu_spec* spec);
On ppc64, cpu_setup is only called for the boot cpu. It is left to
the cpu save/restore functions to handle setting up the state for
additional CPUs. Which gives is the following signature:
typedef void (*cpu_setup_t)(unsigned long offset, struct cpu_spec*
spec);
So my question is do we just extend the ppc64 signature to match the
ppc32 by having a dummy "int cpu_nr" that is ignored or do we do
something else? As far as I can tell cpu_nr is only used by ppc32 as
temp storage so that the cpu_setup functions can return properly.
- kumar
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