Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] MIPS: Support I6500 multi-cluster configuration

["Jiaxun Yang" <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>]

在2024年6月21日六月 上午9:21，Thomas Bogendoerfer写道：
> 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 ?

For irqchip part I think it must be taken together with MIPS arch part.
It's a part of MIPS CORE DRIVERS maintainers entry as well.

For FDC I think functionally it's not a prerequisite.

Thanks
>
> Thomas.
>
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