On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:51:16AM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 15:49 -0700, Paul Burton wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 02:47:14PM -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > > This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> > > MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace mips32r2 ISA level with mips64r2
> > > to the linux-3.19.y-queue
>
> > Hi Kamal,
> >
> > This patch breaks the boot of SMP kernels on Imagination's current
> > MIPS32 systems. This & the other MIPS64 related patches that were
> > submitted as part of the same series do not improve things for any CPUs
> > that Linux supports even as of the v4.2 cycle, so I do not believe they
> > should have been marked for backport.
> >
> > So please either drop this patch (& preferrably the other MIPS64 CPS SMP
> > ones too)
>
> Hi Paul-
>
> Thanks for the heads-up! Please confirm that these are the specific
> commits to be dropped / not-applied to stable:
>
> b677bc0 MIPS: cps-vec: Use macros for various arithmetics and memory operations
> 717f142 MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace KSEG0 with CKSEG0
> 0586ac7 MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Use ta0-ta3 pseudo-registers for 64-bit
> 977e043 MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace mips32r2 ISA level with mips64r2
> 81a02e3 MIPS: kernel: cps-vec: Replace 'la' macro with PTR_LA
> fd5ed30 MIPS: kernel: smp-cps: Fix 64-bit compatibility errors due to pointer casting
Hi Kamal,
Yes those are the ones.
Thanks,
Paul
