Ralf Baechle wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:29:29PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote:
>
>>I have attached a patch which applies to the 2.4 branch and adds
>>support for the NEC VR5000. This would be a first step in
>>adding support for the Lasat architectures.
>>
>>A comment from someone with cvs commit access would be nice
>>this time.
>>
>
>As NEC's VR5000 is a plain normal R5000 why are you duplicating the
>processor support with slight variations?
>
> Ralf
>
I believe the problem is in the (lack of) secondary cache support when
the R5000 target is selected in the standard kernel. I thought that
making a seperate VR5000 cpu was then a safer option leaving the R5000
as it is and presumably working on the platforms it is used on. I have
no possibility of testing on those platforms to ensure any integration
is successful.
/Brian
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