linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] MIPS: Support I6500 multi-cluster configuration

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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:21:17 +0200
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Cc: Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@...mia.com>,
	Aleksandar Rikalo <arikalo@...il.com>,
	Chao-ying Fu <cfu@...ecomp.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...nel.org>, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
	Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	"paulburton@...nel.org" <paulburton@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] MIPS: Support I6500 multi-cluster configuration

On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:05:32AM +0100, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> 
> 
> 在2024年6月20日六月 下午6:56，Thomas Bogendoerfer写道：
> > On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 12:43:27PM +0200, Aleksandar Rikalo wrote:
> >> Taken from Paul Burton MIPS repo with minor changes from Chao-ying Fu.
> >> Tested with 64r6el_defconfig on Boston board in 2 cluster/2 VPU and
> >> 1 cluster/4 VPU configurations.
> >
> > which existing CPUs can use this ?
> 
> Besides Boston are some multi cluster I6500 systems in wild, including Fungible F1,
> which comes with 52 cores in data panel.
> 
> Those vendors show no interest on mainline kernel support though.

ok, so looking at the series it touches areas with different maintainers,
I'm fine taking the MIPS parts, can I simply cherry-pick them out
of the series ?

Thomas.

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