On 11 July 2012 18:25, Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieral...@arm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:17:44PM +0100, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 17:00 +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> > On 11 July 2012 14:32, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <t...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >         On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 10:57 +0100, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> >         There's going to be an 'interesting' merge with our TC2
>> >         enablement
>> >         branch.
>> >
>> >         In arch/arm/kernel/topology.c both branches factor out
>> >         update_siblings_masks(), one of them modifies it.
>> >
>> >         And in the same file, both branches also add functions called
>> >         parse_dt_topology() with different functionality. In the
>> >         resolution I'm
>> >         currently testing, I fixed this by renaming the version from
>> >         big-LITTLE-MP-v2 to parse_dt_for_cpu_capacity() as that seemed
>> >         an
>> >         accurate description of what it did. Is it tool late to also
>> >         do this in
>> >         the MP branch?
>> >
>> >
>> > There are two patches doing the same thing (Vincent probably picked
>> > this patch from Lorenzo and updated it a bit),
>>
>> The don't look like they are doing the same thing to me?!?
>>
>> Lorenzo's patch parses DT for cluster layout.
>>
>> Vincent's patch parses DT looking for CPU core type and frequency so it
>> can set power/capaciy.
>>
>> I can see no overlap in the CPU node properties that they parse.
>>
>> Perhaps Lorenzo and Vincent can comment?
>
> You can drop my patch since it is not strictly needed on TC2. I have to
> work out the conflict with Vincent's code, but again for now drop the
> patch, it is safe to do that, topology is set-up according to the MPIDR
> wiring and it is correct, at least on TC2.
>

Thanks Lorenzo

Vincent

> Thanks a lot,
> Lorenzo
>

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