Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] Add i.MX7 SRC device implementation

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 at 22:08, Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@tribudubois.net> wrote:
>
> The SRC device is normaly used to start the secondary CPU.

"normally"

>
> When running Linux directly, Qemu is emulating a PSCI interface that UBOOT

"QEMU"

> is installing at boot time and therefore the fact that the SRC device is
> unimplemented is hidden as Qemu respond directly to PSCI requets without
> using the SRC device.
>
> But if you try to run a more bare metal application (maybe uboot itself),
> then it is not possible to start the secondary CPU as the SRC is an
> unimplemented device.
>
> This patch adds the ability to start the secondary CPU through the SRC
> device so that you can use this feature in bare metal application.

"applications"

>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jcd@tribudubois.net>

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

thanks
-- PMM