On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:01:52PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 15:32 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 09:24:39AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > > > This will be used to build real HW ids for the cores and enforce > > some > > > limits on the available cores per chip. > > > > Is there actually a practical reason to allow the user (or machine > > type) to override the default core mask? > > None other than mimmicing real HW ... some cores can be disabled > on some chips and we *might* want to mimmic that for some test > scenarios.
Ok, sounds like a good enough reason to me.
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