Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Provide Kconfig option for default IEEE 754 conformance mode

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Thu Aug 06 2020 - 04:16:34 EST


On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:59:15PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>
>
> 在 2020/8/1 14:11, Jiaxun Yang 写道:
> >Requested by downstream distros, a Kconfig option for default
> >IEEE 754 conformance mode allows them to set their mode to
> >relaxed by default.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reviewed-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reviewed-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >--
> >v2: Reword according to Xuerui's suggestion.
> >---
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Is it possible to get this patch into 5.9 merge window?
> I think it have got enough review tag, and the config option was requested
> by a Debian developer. The next Debian release will take 5.9 lts kernel and
> they don't want to ship a non-bootable kernel in a major release.

no I won't include it into 5.9, I need to first go through links pointed
to by Maciej and fully understand what a proper solution could be.

Thomas.

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