linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: introduce exclusive R3k CPU probe

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Message-ID: <20201012103021.GC7765@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:30:21 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: introduce exclusive R3k CPU probe

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:33:26PM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> Running a kernel on a R3k of machine definitly will never see one of
> the newer CPU cores. And since R3k system usually are low on memory
> we could save quite some kbytes:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>   15070	     88	     32	  15190	   3b56	arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.o
>     844	      4	     16	    864	    360	arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.o
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
> ---
>  arch/mips/kernel/Makefile        |   8 +-
>  arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c | 171 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/cpu-r3k-probe.c

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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