Common ARM context save and restore (first steps)
We need to list with Arm which registers really need to be saved or restored for each Arm states. On some soC, all registers can't be saved by linux and action must be delegated to a another piece of code.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Vincent Guittot
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Amit Kucheria
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Lorenzo Pieralisi
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trunk
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
2011.08
- Started by
- Amit Kucheria
- Completed by
- Amit Kucheria
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
Blueprint now assigned to Lorenzo, since he'll coordinate and act as gatekeeper to all platform-code that is converted over to use the common code.
Work Items
Work items for 2011.08:
[lorenzo-pieralisi] Publish common save and restore patchset to git tree: DONE
[amitdanielk] Review Lorenzo's common save & restore patchset: DONE
[amitdanielk] Get samsung board working with Lorenzo's common save & restore patchset: DONE
[amitdanielk] Convert samsung cpuidle to use Lorenzo's common code in mainline: DONE
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
