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

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Fri Jun 21 2024 - 04:22:52 EST


On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:05:32AM +0100, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
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> 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 ?
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> Besides Boston are some multi cluster I6500 systems in wild, including Fungible F1,
> which comes with 52 cores in data panel.
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> 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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