Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] MIPS: Support I6500 multi-cluster configuration
From: Serge Semin
Date: Fri Jun 21 2024 - 05:13:38 EST
Hi Thomas, Jiaxun
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 10:21:17AM +0200, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> 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 ?
Please hold on with merging it in for a bit. I'll give the series a
try on my MIPS P5600-based SoC later, on this weekends.
-Serge(y)
>
> Thomas.
>
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