Re: [PATCH] mm/pg-r4k.c: Dump the generated code

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:23:42PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  The existence of the definitions in <asm/war.h> is there so that 
> workarounds for CPU bugs are optimised away at the kernel build time if 
> not activated.
> 
>  I agree the inclusion both R3k and R4k handlers at the same time even 
> though any configuration predetermines which of the two is only going to 
> be needed is a bit suboptimal indeed.

I guess one of the goals was to slowly clean up the stuff that forces us
to have different kernels for R2000 and R4000 class TLBs.

  Ralf