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

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 06:02:25 EST

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On 3/3/21, Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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