Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Feb 2023 19:33:46 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mips: Realtek RTL: select NO_EXCEPT_FILL | From | Olliver Schinagl <> |
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Hey Thomas,
On 05-02-2023 17:19, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 03:39:59PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote: >> Thanks Thomas, may I take this moment to poke you about a nother issue I >> don't quite understand how to resolve/figure out. >> >> >> I made the realtek target work with the GENERIC_MIPS_KERNEL, but only if I >> disable SWAP_IO_SPACE[0]. > > is this little endian or big endian ? The kernel config currently states Big Endian
> >> While I could act all smart and ask what this is for, I better ask, why is >> this concidered 'generic'. The comment in mangle-port [1] mentions 'sane >> hardware'. I don't know what is considered sane here, as the number of >> targets following generic mips seem to be around 5. > > I always thought that SWAP_IO_SPACE is needed for big endian, but > looking at arch/mips/Kconfig I see a lot of SWAP_IO_SPACE for pure > little endian machines. I need to dig deeper to understand why. Thank you!
> >> So any pointers (other then doing SWAP_IO_SPACE if !REALTEK_SOC, which I >> have now) would be appreciated > > such a change would defeat the generic part of GENERIC_MIPS_KERNEL, > because it will then only work on REALTEC_SOC and nothing else. Ignoring the potential incorrect detail here, obviously I would prefer to use the GENERIC_MIPS_KERNEL, but having to copy the whole config just to leave out that one option also is kinda meh. So i'm hoping we can find a solution of course :)
Olliver
> > Thomas. >
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