Hello. How can I disable CPU cores on BananaPi? “maxcpus=N” in “cmdline.txt” gives nothing. Thanks
have you tried
root@host: echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online
to enable it make “echo 1”
Thanks for reply. Didn’t work unfortunately.
You have replaced X by cpu (0-n) you want to disable? You see in top (multicpu view) which cores are disabled
sure I tried this and checked with htop
Ok. Interesting. I found that my Bananapi (model Zero) uses file
‘/boot/bananapi/bpi-m2z/linux4.4/720p/uEnv.txt’
for grabbing a boot parameters.
After adding ‘maxcpus=2’ to a given line there are only 2 cores active during boot (2 Tuxes 
) but after entering the OS after login there are all cores active. BUT now I can “hotplugging” CPU cores with a command given above. So it kind of works. Maybe someone knows exaclty why is that. I leve that topic here. Maybe useful.
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I guess there is a script which reenables cpus after bootup. But good to know you have foud right config. This enables you to change uboots environment e.g.if you want to boot another kernel