On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:

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Mostly I was looking at the series from SOC boot and CPU PM
point of view and boot part seems to just fine.

As per discussion at LPC, I have gone through the SMC
proposal which ARM has published. In general the boot part
with SMC seems to be doable and can be standardized across SOCs.
The part which will be conflicting is the CPU power management.
That seems to be the harder one and the document is at too
infancy stage from the details point of view. Some bits about
save, restore are related to switcher kind of architecture, which
may not be the requirement for all the SoCs.

I've reviewed an earlier draft of that document.  Although the examples
in the latest document appear to be geared towards switcher usage, my
suggestions to the ARM folks was to take into account the CPU hotplug
scenario instead.  The provided examples remained switcher centric, but
the API in the published document is now much more generic than it used
to be.  I think it should cover all usage scenarios now.

Thanks for the background Nicolas.

Regards,
Santosh