Re: [PATCH V10 00/22] arch: Add basic LoongArch support

[Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@gmail.com>]

Hi, Arnd,

On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 4:55 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:03 AM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> wrote:
> > Cross-compile tool chain to build kernel:
> > https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-2022-03-03-cross-tools-gcc-glibc.tar.xz
>
> I also uploaded a clean build of gcc-12.1 with loongarch64 in the
> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ builds.
> I have not tried it yet.
>
> > This patchset is adding basic LoongArch support in mainline kernel, we
> > can see a complete snapshot here:
> > https://github.com/loongson/linux/tree/loongarch-next
>
> Note: I have pulled in the generic ticket lock series into the asm-generic tree.
> Please rebase your series on top of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/palmer/linux
> generic-ticket-spinlocks-v6
> to avoid duplicating the commits. As long as you are based on top of the
> 9282d0996936 commit, that should be fine.
>
> > V9 -> V10:
> > 1, Rebased on 5.18-rc6;
> > 2, Use generic efi stub;
> > 3, Use generic string library;
> > 4, Use generic ticket spinlock;
> > 5, Use more meaningful macro naming;
> > 6, Remove the zboot patch;
> > 7, Fix commit message and documentations;
> > 8, Some other minor fixes and improvements.
>
> I think with this you have addressed the comments that I had in the past.
> Xuerui Wang and some others had additional comments that of course
> need to be addressed, but this is looking good to me.
Thanks, I will solve the problems and send V11 ASAP.

Huacai
>
>        Arnd