On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:27:56PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:27:56 +0200 > To: Linux MIPS Org <linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: SMTC Patches [0 of 3] > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I've managed to steal enough time to rework the SMTC support > for the MIPS 34K (and, I suppose 1004K) processors so that it > works again near the head of the source tree. This involved > a complete rework of the clocking model to be compatible with > new common timing event system, which finally enables "tickless" > operation in SMTC, something it needed pretty badly. I also > solved the problem with using the "wait_irqoff" idle loop > under SMTC. > > There are going to be three patches that will follow. The > first two are relatively localized fixes to problems with > FPU affinity and with IPI replay that I came across in testing > the new code. The last is a pretty big patch, but it all > pretty much hangs together and I couldn't see any sensible > way to partition it. I've folded patch 4/3 into 1/3 and backported everything, as far as it seemed sensible. One nit was that 2/3 breaks the build and 3/3 fixes it again. This sort of build breakage is not uncommon but frowned uppon these days since it makes use of git bisect for debugging impossible. Thanks, Ralf
