Re: [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Assorted microMIPS fixes

["Steven J. Hill" <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>]

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 <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>