LC-Asia: A big LITTLE MP update

From what I've read on LWN (no mobile here and I don't follow them closely enough to know specifics about individual models), the switching code will be shipping on the first units, as it's more mature due to both being simpler and the fact that there was less tweaking to do to the existing (cpufreq in that case) code to get something shippable.

The HMP code is far more complex, and as the article states, the last pieces of the puzzle have yet to be fully hashed out, let alone written (the base cpufreq/switching code is I believe all written, they're at the last stae now), let alone corner-cased, fully debugged, with tunables tweaked.

So we're talking weeks to ship switching, months, another mobile hardware generation at least, to ship HMP.