Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] MIPS: cpu-probe: introduce exclusive R3k CPU probe
From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 06:38:26 EST
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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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