Re: [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: Add defs & probing of 64-bit CP0_EBase

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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:02:09AM +0100, James Hogan wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 02:46:00PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> > MIPS64r2 and later cores may optionally have a 64-bit CP0_EBase
> > register, with a write gate (WG) bit to allow the upper half to be
> > written. The presence of this feature will need to be known about for VZ
> > support in order to correctly save and restore the guest CP0_EBase
> > register, so add CPU feature definitions and probing for this
> > capability.
> 
> Okay, so it turns out EBase.WG can be present on MIPS32 too, to allow
> writing of bits 31:30 (thanks Matt!), so this needs a little more
> thought.

So drop the series for now or do you want to patch it up later?

  Ralf




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