linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: select CPU_MIPS64 for remaining MIPS64 CPUs

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Date:   Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:05:16 +0100
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
Cc:     "open list:BROADCOM NVRAM DRIVER" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Maciej W . Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        George Cherian <gcherian@...vell.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: select CPU_MIPS64 for remaining MIPS64 CPUs

On 3/3/21, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:27:46PM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> Hey Thomas,
>>
>> Would you mind sending this for 5.12 in an rc at some point, rather
>> than waiting for 5.13? I'd like to see this backported to 5.10 and 5.4
>> for OpenWRT.
>
> why is this so important for OpenWRT ? Just to select CRYPTO_POLY1305_MIPS
> ?

Yes. The performance boost on Octeon is significant for WireGuard users.

And it becomes incredibly frustrating to bifurcate packaging into
"mips64 where the config is right" vs "mips64 where the config is
borked." This saves us a lot of trouble.

Plus the patch is trivial.