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On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 12:18:43PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Do we need this CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS setting at all?  Can't we just 
> save/restore this SmartMIPS ACX register on context switches where 
> available (straightforward to detect at the run time) and have the 
> relevant pieces of code excluded (#ifdef-ed out or suchlike) on 
> non-supported configurations such as microMIPS or MIPS64?

SmartMIPS has new instructions which are hardcoded in various assembler
fragments, where something like if (cpu_has_smartmips) won't work.
So until a more complex solution is implemented CPU_HAS_SMARTMIPS is
what there is.

  Ralf