Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MIPS: TXx9: Convert SPI platform data to software nodes

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Nov 29 2021 - 14:03:41 EST


Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:33 PM Thomas Bogendoerfer
<tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 01:30:17PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > BTW, I'm using it in 32-bit mode, as the VxWorks bootloader cannot boot
> > 64-bit images. Are there other boards with such a limitation? Perhaps
> > there's even shim support for booting 64-bit kernels on such boards,
> > so I can test both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels?
>
> maybe BOOT_ELF32 could help here.

Yes it does, thanks a lot for the suggestion! Patch sent.

Took me a bit to test proper operation, as contemporary cross-toolchains
create userland binaries that can no longer run on MIPS-II/III CPUs,
and native development is slow and memory-constrained (dpkg OOM)...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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