Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jun Sun wrote:
You missed the point - I like to see some open discussions before any big
changes to MIPS. If you look back of all the significant changes made to the
Agreed.
MIPS tree, you will see a high percentage of them went in without any open
I can't actually recall any significant changes recently (barring
platform additions I don't really track), certainly not since 2.4. All I
observe are bug fixes, clean-ups and similar stuff.
Here are some of those on top of my mind. And I am pretty sure I am missing
others:
1) /proc/cpuinfo and some bootinfo.h change (I think these two come from one
change)
2) split of cache and tlb files
3) some kind of flush_cache_LSB() routines.
discussion or pre-warning. It is this context that brought out :-(. Not your
patch per se.
If you suggest that this change qualifies as big, then I'd write you
exaggerate.
It is not big logically. However, outside all the boards that are in oss
tree, I can safely say there are at least twenty MIPS porting efforts going on
at various stages. Next time those people sync up with oss, they will find
the missing symbol of bus_error_init().
Anyway, I've sent a proposed function and then a real
implementation of bits that were broken "since forever". Even the
previous clean-up, for 32-bit MIPS solely, was written by me -- apparently
nobody else was interested in the subsystem.
It wasn't my intention to dampen your MIPS contribution. In fact, I start to
regret about my first email which now looks a little irresponsible.
If anything out of this thread can increase the awareness of open discussion
and awareness of the existence of many boards which are not part of oss tree
yet, I shall be happy.
Jun
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