Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] Modernize Loongson64 Machine v8

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Mar 25 2020 - 13:34:36 EST


On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:54:53AM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Loongson have a long history of contributing their code to mainline kernel.
> However, it seems like recent years, they are focusing on maintain a kernel by themselves
> rather than contribute there code to the community.
>
> Kernel is progress rapidly too. Their code slept in mainline for a long peroid without proper
> maintainance and became outdated.
>
> This patchset brings modern DeviceTree and irqchip support to the Loongson64 machine, and leaves
> Loongson 2e/f alone since they are too legacy to touch.
>
> PCI and some legacy I/O device will be converted later, together with LS7A PCH support.

applied series minus patch 6 to mips-next.

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