Re: Bug#834844: release-notes: document that mips* arches now require a R2 CPU

Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2016-08-25 14:42, James Cowgill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 25/08/16 14:17, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > This mips32r2 requirement also appears to exclude Cavium Octeon:
> > 
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h#n50
> > 
> > If that's accurate, it would be worth mentioning in the release notes as well.
> 
> *sigh* Cavium Octeon machines do support R2 (mips32r2 is a subset of
> mips64r2) but for some reason unknown to me, don't actually expose this.
> I've adjusted the check to look for mips64r2 as well and attached a new
> patch.

Thanks for the patch, it looks fine to me.

Cheers,
Aurelien

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