On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 05:55:50PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

It needs to know this because the SMP release mechanism for Freescale
book3e is different from when booting with normal hardware.  In theory
we could simulate the normal spin table mechanism, but not (easily) at
the addresses U-Boot put in the device tree -- so there'd need to be
even more communication between the kernel and kexec to set that up.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <redacted>
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v2: Use a device tree property rather than setting a flag in the kernel
image, as requested by Michael Ellerman.

I'd value a review of this from someone more familiar with ppc than I.