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From: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	Linux MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	"open list:MIPS" <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>,
	Fuxin Zhang <zhangfx@lemote.com>,
	Zhangjin Wu <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Loongson: Remove Loongson-2E/2F support
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:05:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAhV-H7R3Ci+Z1kMc2MXcK69JwoH5+bxvGGCjrLzBNbEki76zg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1911032301160.367459@eddie.linux-mips.org>

Hi, Maciej,

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:08 AM Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Huacai Chen wrote:
>
> > Loongson-2E/2F is old, inactive and a bit ugly, so let's remove them
> > and the world will be more comfortable.
>
>  People still use them, e.g. I do, and upstream removal causes an issue
> with the need to backport changes not specific to the platform.
>
>  If you don't want to maintain the code, then just mark it orphan and rely
> on the community to maintain it.  If it starts breaking and nobody picks
> it to make fixes, then it can be removed.  There's no need to rush IMO.
>
>  BTW, there used to be a patch somewhere to support more than 512MiB of
> DRAM with the 2E, but I can't find it -- can you help me tracking it down?
>
OK, we will keep Loongson-2E/2F in kernel for sometime, thanks.

Huacai
>   Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1572758417-29265-1-git-send-email-chenhc@lemote.com>
2019-11-03  5:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] MIPS: Loongson: Rename LOONGSON1 to LOONGSON32 Huacai Chen
2019-11-03 11:26   ` Huacai Chen
2019-11-03  5:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: Loongson: Unify LOONGSON3/LOONGSON64 Kconfig usage Huacai Chen
2019-11-03  5:35   ` Jiaxun Yang
2019-11-03 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Loongson: Remove Loongson-2E/2F support Maciej W. Rozycki
2019-11-04  6:05   ` Huacai Chen [this message]
2019-11-05 13:54   ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-02-26  2:38     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2019-11-04 19:03 ` Paul Burton
2019-11-05  1:14   ` Huacai Chen

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