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From:   Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Nov 2019 14:05:49 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] MIPS: Loongson: Remove Loongson-2E/2F support
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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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