MIPS: Add generic support for multiple machines within a single kernel

This patch adds a generic solution to support multiple machines based on
a given SoC within a single kernel image. It is implemented already for
several other architectures but MIPS has no generic support for that yet.

[Ralf: This competes with DT but DT is a much more complex solution and this
code has been used by OpenWRT for a long time so for now DT is a bad reason
to stop the merge but longer term this should be migrated to DT.]

Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: kaloz@openwrt.org
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Cliff Holden <Cliff.Holden@Atheros.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1814/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index f25df73db923..570607b376b5 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ SECTIONS
         INIT_TEXT_SECTION(PAGE_SIZE)
         INIT_DATA_SECTION(16)
 
+        . = ALIGN(4);
+        .mips.machines.init : AT(ADDR(.mips.machines.init) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
+                __mips_machines_start = .;
+                *(.mips.machines.init)
+                __mips_machines_end = .;
+        }
+
         /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time, to deal with
          * references from .rodata
          */