Re: [PATCH V6 2/3] MIPS: Loongson-3: Enable COP2 usage in kernel

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H, Thomas,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:23 AM Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> 在 2020/9/14 19:11, Thomas Bogendoerfer 写道:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 06:06:08PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> >> index 409cb48..9fc88ec 100644
> >> --- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> >> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/head.S
> >> @@ -14,11 +14,16 @@
> >>
> >>   #include <asm/asm.h>
> >>   #include <asm/regdef.h>
> >> +#include <asm/mipsregs.h>
> >>
> >>      .set noreorder
> >>      .cprestore
> >>      LEAF(start)
> >>   start:
> >> +    mfc0    t0, CP0_STATUS
> >> +    or      t0, ST0_KERNEL_CUMASK
> >> +    mtc0    t0, CP0_STATUS
> >> +
> >>      /* Save boot rom start args */
> >>      move    s0, a0
> >>      move    s1, a1
> > please to compiler flags in arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile to
> > disable generation of instruction not supported, if CU2 is disabled
> > (and don't forget about 2ef).
>
> I don't think it's worthy to have different CFLAGS between zboot and rest of
> the kernel.
>
> On GCC version prior to 9, there is no flag to control the generation of
> these instructions, unless drop supplied "-march=loongson3a" option,
> that's messy and unreliable for Makefile.
>
> By contrast, enabling CU2 in zboot have no side effect. Some firmware even
> did it in early ROM initilization stage.
What do you think about? I agree with Jiaxun, but disable lq/sq in
zboot is also acceptable for me.

Huacai
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Jiaxun
>
> >
> > Rest of the patch LGTM.
> >
> > Thomas.
> >



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