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authorBin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>2015-06-23 12:18:52 +0800
committerSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>2015-07-14 18:03:17 -0600
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x86: Generate a valid MultiProcessor (MP) table
Implement write_mp_table() to create a minimal working MP table. This includes an MP floating table, a configuration table header and all of the 5 base configuration table entries. The I/O interrupt assignment table entry is created based on the same information used in the creation of PIRQ routing table from device tree. A check duplicated entry logic is applied to prevent writing multiple I/O interrupt entries with the same information. Use a Kconfig option GENERATE_MP_TABLE to tell U-Boot whether we need actually write the MP table at the F seg, just like we did for PIRQ routing and SFI tables. With MP table existence, linux kernel will switch to I/O APIC and local APIC to process all the peripheral interrupts instead of 8259 PICs. This takes full advantage of the multicore hardware and the SMP kernel. Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@@ -313,6 +313,15 @@ config GENERATE_SFI_TABLE
For more information, see http://simplefirmware.org
+config GENERATE_MP_TABLE
+ bool "Generate an MP (Multi-Processor) table"
+ default n
+ help
+ Generate an MP (Multi-Processor) table for this board. The MP table
+ provides a way for the operating system to support for symmetric
+ multiprocessing as well as symmetric I/O interrupt handling with
+ the local APIC and I/O APIC.
+
endmenu
config MAX_PIRQ_LINKS
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