From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:38:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:46480 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27013838AbaKQQiPJ0zul (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:38:15 +0100 Received: from KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (unknown [192.168.5.35]) by Websense Email Security Gateway with ESMTPS id F356DEC32608E; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:38:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from KLMAIL02.kl.imgtec.org (10.40.60.222) by KLMAIL01.kl.imgtec.org (192.168.5.35) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:38:08 +0000 Received: from BAMAIL02.ba.imgtec.org (10.20.40.28) by klmail02.kl.imgtec.org (10.40.60.222) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.195.1; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:38:08 +0000 Received: from [192.168.159.30] (192.168.159.30) by bamail02.ba.imgtec.org (10.20.40.28) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.3.174.1; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:38:06 -0800 Message-ID: <546A2465.4030103@imgtec.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:37:57 -0600 From: "Steven J. Hill" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Assorted microMIPS fixes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.159.30] Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 44234 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: Steven.Hill@imgtec.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On 11/15/2014 04:06 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Hi, > > In an attempt to build a kernel that supports microMIPS userland and > runs on QEMU I came across the problem that, due to apparently arbitrary > decisions made sometime in the past, there is no such combination > possible. > > I went ahead and fixed our configuration to support that, but in the > course of doing that I came across numerous problems that I decided to > address at the same time. This mini patch series the result. Most of > the changes are actually independent of one another, although there is a > syntactical overlap between 5/7 and 7/7, so these have to be applied in > order. > > Of course I had to draw a line somewhere so as not to get distracted > too much from the actual purpose I have the need to run such a > configuration, so I left some further bugs I spotted for the next > occasion. > > Ralf, please backport these fixes to stable branches as applicable; I > can supply you with a 3.17 equivalent of 5/7 as this piece has changed > significantly recently and I actually had to forward-port the original > change that I made to address the issue. > > Maciej > Maciej, This whole patchset looks really good. I went through all of them and just made a few comments during review. Steve Reviewed-by: Steven J. Hill From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:46480 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S27013838AbaKQQiPJ0zul (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:38:15 +0100 Message-ID: <546A2465.4030103@imgtec.com> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:37:57 -0600 From: "Steven J. Hill" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Assorted microMIPS fixes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Message-ID: <20141117163757.MV8-9NuD0ycJjPLGnmIGHRwCKu7LUWqrqftGV9R9sVc@z> On 11/15/2014 04:06 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Hi, > > In an attempt to build a kernel that supports microMIPS userland and > runs on QEMU I came across the problem that, due to apparently arbitrary > decisions made sometime in the past, there is no such combination > possible. > > I went ahead and fixed our configuration to support that, but in the > course of doing that I came across numerous problems that I decided to > address at the same time. This mini patch series the result. Most of > the changes are actually independent of one another, although there is a > syntactical overlap between 5/7 and 7/7, so these have to be applied in > order. > > Of course I had to draw a line somewhere so as not to get distracted > too much from the actual purpose I have the need to run such a > configuration, so I left some further bugs I spotted for the next > occasion. > > Ralf, please backport these fixes to stable branches as applicable; I > can supply you with a 3.17 equivalent of 5/7 as this piece has changed > significantly recently and I actually had to forward-port the original > change that I made to address the issue. > > Maciej > Maciej, This whole patchset looks really good. I went through all of them and just made a few comments during review. Steve Reviewed-by: Steven J. Hill