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From: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
To: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>,
	Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
	Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@zoho.com>,
	Liangliang Huang <huanglllzu@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Provide Kconfig option for default IEEE 754 conformance mode
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 18:26:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9823ab9b-1f02-c8af-7d62-80a1d24aaaa3@xen0n.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d03a350c-842c-c041-f11b-017ec68e3de4@flygoat.com>

Hi Jiaxun,


On 2020/8/5 21:59, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>
>
> 在 2020/8/1 14:11, Jiaxun Yang 写道:
>> Requested by downstream distros, a Kconfig option for default
>> IEEE 754 conformance mode allows them to set their mode to
>> relaxed by default.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
>> Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
>>
>> -- 
>> v2: Reword according to Xuerui's suggestion.
>> ---
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Is it possible to get this patch into 5.9 merge window?
> I think it have got enough review tag, and the config option was
> requested
> by a Debian developer. The next Debian release will take 5.9 lts
> kernel and
> they don't want to ship a non-bootable kernel in a major release.

I have an idea. Can the downstream packagers make use of the builtin
command line config options, to inject the "ieee754=relaxed" or whatever
option necessary? If it is acceptable this patch should not be necessary
in the short term.

>
> Thanks.
>
> - Jiaxun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-06 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-01  6:11 [PATCH v2] MIPS: Provide Kconfig option for default IEEE 754 conformance mode Jiaxun Yang
2020-08-05 13:59 ` Jiaxun Yang
2020-08-06  8:16   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-08-06 10:26   ` WANG Xuerui [this message]
2020-08-07  2:07     ` Huacai Chen
2020-08-07 15:59 ` Zhou Yanjie

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