linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] ARC: guard dsp early init against non ARCv2

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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:03:21 +0000
From:   Angelo Ribeiro <Angelo.Ribeiro@...opsys.com>
To:     Jose Abreu <Jose.Abreu@...opsys.com>,
        Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@...opsys.com>,
        "linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
CC:     Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>,
        Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@...opsys.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] ARC: guard dsp early init against non ARCv2

Hi Eugeniy,

Tested okay on a ARCv1.

Thanks
Angelo

Tested-by: Angelo Ribeiro <angelo.ribeiro@...opsys.com>

From: Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 07:19:55

> From: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@...opsys.com>
> Date: Apr/28/2020, 19:50:24 (UTC+00:00)
> 
> > As of today we guard early DSP init code with
> > ARC_AUX_DSP_BUILD (0x7A) BCR check to verify that we have
> > CPU with DSP configured. However that's not enough as in
> > ARCv1 CPU the same BCR (0x7A) is used for checking MUL/MAC
> > instructions presence.
> > 
> > So, let's guard DSP early init against non ARCv2.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Paltsev <Eugeniy.Paltsev@...opsys.com>
> 
> Reported-by: Angelo Ribeiro 
> <angelor@...opsys.com>
> 
> ---
> Thanks,
> Jose Miguel Abreu