linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mips: remove reference to "newer Loongson-3"

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Message-ID: <20220307122440.GF14422@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Mon, 7 Mar 2022 13:24:40 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Xi Ruoyao <xry111@...gyan1223.wang>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: remove reference to "newer Loongson-3"

On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 08:49:09PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> Newest Loongson-3 processors have moved to use LoongArch architecture.
> Sadly, the LL/SC issue is still existing on both latest Loongson-3
> processors using MIPS64 (Loongson-3A4000) and LoongArch
> (Loongson-3A5000).
> 
> As it's very unlikely there will be new Loongson-3 processors using
> MIPS64, let's stop people from false hoping.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@...gyan1223.wang>
> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
> Huacai: how's the status of LL/SC issue on Loongson-2K?  If
> the issue exists on it as well, we can just force
> CPU_LOONGSON3_WORKAROUNDS when CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON64 and
> CONFIG_SMP are both selected.
> 
>  arch/mips/Kconfig | 9 ++-------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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