Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MIPS: Add device tree support to MIPS

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

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:18:56AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> > A suggested set of kernel defconfigs to test:
> > 
> > bigsur_defconfig
> > cavium-octeon_defconfig
> > ip22_defconfig
> > ip27_defconfig
> > ip32_defconfig
> > malta_defconfig
> > allmodconfig
> > 
> > These cover a huge variety of features, UP, SMP & weirdo SMP, flatmem & 
> > NUMA,
> > 32-bit, 64-bit, little and big endian.
> 
> OK, I will adjust the MIPS builds tomorrow.  Thanks for the suggestions.
> Just be clear, I only need to build with one compiler (presumably what
> gcc/binutils produces when I ask for a "mips" toolchain) and can drop the
> other ("mipsel"), correct?

Yes, that's entirely correct.

For the sake of others reading this I should mention that some GCC version
apparently had a bug which resulted in bad code generation for the
non-default ABI.  I don't know which versions were affected but for
just doing build tests it really doesn't matter.

  Ralf