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From: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for 4KS cpu.
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:00:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cda58cb80510050000r1baea5c7k@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434277D5.1090603@mips.com>

2005/10/4, Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@mips.com>:
> They also have some physical security and cryptography accelleration
> features, some of which use extended CPU state that would
> require some kernel context management support if anyone wanted
> to actually use them in Linux applications. The real point of
> having a CPU_4KSC config flag would be to enable building-in
> such support.
>

what is extended CPU state that you're talking about ?

> I'm being a teeny bit vague about this, because I'm not 100%
> certain that all the details of "SmartMIPS" have been published.
>

hmm, does that mean that smart mips extension couldn't be supported in
Linux in case that this extension have not been published ?

Thanks
--
               Franck

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-05  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-04  8:49 [PATCH] Add support for 4KS cpu Franck
2005-10-04 11:34 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-04 12:38   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2005-10-04 13:29     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-04 13:54       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2005-10-04 15:18         ` Franck
2005-10-04 16:01           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-04 17:33             ` Franck
2005-10-05  6:55               ` Franck
2005-10-05 13:22                 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-05 18:04                   ` Franck
2005-10-05  7:00     ` Franck [this message]
2005-10-05  9:46       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2005-10-05 13:20         ` Franck
2005-10-04 13:10   ` Franck
2005-10-04 13:54     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-04 15:10       ` Franck
2005-10-04 17:11         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-10-04 14:17     ` Ralf Baechle
2005-10-04 14:06 ` Ralf Baechle

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