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authorPaul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>2014-07-11 11:47:25 -0400
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2014-08-01 18:06:45 -0400
commit4af94d5d09bace4f351d7ce5f5e18da07777eb63 (patch)
treefef2b76a924cb0f039a39184ce993887252366ff /arch/mips/Kconfig
parent2a6cb6690f614b0cf4e1e06eb226c1e1374113e4 (diff)
MIPS: mark MSA experimental
In light of the commit 16f77de82f2d (Revert "MIPS: Save/restore MSA context around signals") the MSA support in the kernel is incomplete. Until the replacement for the former sigcontext changes is agreed upon and in tree, mark MSA experimental & disable it by default. MSA is only implemented by one CPU supported by the kernel, the P5600. The P5600 is a 32 bit core, and thus MSA can only be used when the experimental CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT option is enabled. Therefore MSA is only being used in experimental settings anyway and this change doesn't actually make any difference beyond clarifying the state of MSA support. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7311/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
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@@ -2115,10 +2115,9 @@ config CPU_MICROMIPS
2115 microMIPS ISA 2115 microMIPS ISA
2116 2116
2117config CPU_HAS_MSA 2117config CPU_HAS_MSA
2118 bool "Support for the MIPS SIMD Architecture" 2118 bool "Support for the MIPS SIMD Architecture (EXPERIMENTAL)"
2119 depends on CPU_SUPPORTS_MSA 2119 depends on CPU_SUPPORTS_MSA
2120 depends on 64BIT || MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT 2120 depends on 64BIT || MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT
2121 default y
2122 help 2121 help
2123 MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) introduces 128 bit wide vector registers 2122 MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA) introduces 128 bit wide vector registers
2124 and a set of SIMD instructions to operate on them. When this option 2123 and a set of SIMD instructions to operate on them. When this option