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<title>MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel</title>
<updated>2020-06-20T08:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiaxun Yang</name>
<email>jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-06T05:52:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ff487d41036035376e47972c7c522490b839ab37 ]

LLD failed to link vmlinux with 64bit load address for 32bit ELF
while bfd will strip 64bit address into 32bit silently.
To fix LLD build, we should truncate load address provided by platform
into 32bit for 32bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/786
Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25784
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ff487d41036035376e47972c7c522490b839ab37 ]

LLD failed to link vmlinux with 64bit load address for 32bit ELF
while bfd will strip 64bit address into 32bit silently.
To fix LLD build, we should truncate load address provided by platform
into 32bit for 32bit kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang &lt;jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/786
Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25784
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song &lt;maskray@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Prevent link failure with kcov instrumentation</title>
<updated>2020-01-23T07:19:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jouni Hogander</name>
<email>jouni.hogander@unikie.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-09T12:37:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a4a3893114a41e365274d5fab5d9ff5acc235ff0 ]

__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is not linked in and causing link
failure if KCOV_INSTRUMENT is enabled. Fix this by disabling
instrumentation for compressed image.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander &lt;jouni.hogander@unikie.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a4a3893114a41e365274d5fab5d9ff5acc235ff0 ]

__sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() is not linked in and causing link
failure if KCOV_INSTRUMENT is enabled. Fix this by disabling
instrumentation for compressed image.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander &lt;jouni.hogander@unikie.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paulburton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn &lt;lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: dts: ar9331: fix interrupt-controller size</title>
<updated>2019-10-29T08:15:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleksij Rempel</name>
<email>o.rempel@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-30T09:39:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0889d07f3e4b171c453b2aaf2b257f9074cdf624 ]

It is two registers each of 4 byte.

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;o.rempel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh+dt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team &lt;kernel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0889d07f3e4b171c453b2aaf2b257f9074cdf624 ]

It is two registers each of 4 byte.

Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel &lt;o.rempel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh+dt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team &lt;kernel@pengutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: fix build on non-linux hosts</title>
<updated>2019-08-04T07:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant</name>
<email>ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-19T14:08:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1196364f21ffe5d1e6d83cafd6a2edb89404a3ae ]

calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c requires SZ_64K to be defined for alignment
purposes.  It included "../../../../include/linux/sizes.h" to define
that size, however "sizes.h" tries to include &lt;linux/const.h&gt; which
assumes linux system headers.  These may not exist eg. the following
error was encountered when building Linux for OpenWrt under macOS:

In file included from arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c:16:
arch/mips/boot/compressed/../../../../include/linux/sizes.h:11:10: fatal error: 'linux/const.h' file not found
         ^~~~~~~~~~

Change makefile to force building on local linux headers instead of
system headers.  Also change eye-watering relative reference in include
file spec.

Thanks to Jo-Philip Wich &amp; Petr Štetiar for assistance in tracking this
down &amp; fixing.

Suggested-by: Jo-Philipp Wich &lt;jo@mein.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar &lt;ynezz@true.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant &lt;ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1196364f21ffe5d1e6d83cafd6a2edb89404a3ae ]

calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c requires SZ_64K to be defined for alignment
purposes.  It included "../../../../include/linux/sizes.h" to define
that size, however "sizes.h" tries to include &lt;linux/const.h&gt; which
assumes linux system headers.  These may not exist eg. the following
error was encountered when building Linux for OpenWrt under macOS:

In file included from arch/mips/boot/compressed/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr.c:16:
arch/mips/boot/compressed/../../../../include/linux/sizes.h:11:10: fatal error: 'linux/const.h' file not found
         ^~~~~~~~~~

Change makefile to force building on local linux headers instead of
system headers.  Also change eye-watering relative reference in include
file spec.

Thanks to Jo-Philip Wich &amp; Petr Štetiar for assistance in tracking this
down &amp; fixing.

Suggested-by: Jo-Philipp Wich &lt;jo@mein.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar &lt;ynezz@true.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant &lt;ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Align kernel load address to 64KB</title>
<updated>2019-01-09T15:16:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhc@lemote.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-15T07:53:56+00:00</published>
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commit bec0de4cfad21bd284dbddee016ed1767a5d2823 upstream.

KEXEC needs the new kernel's load address to be aligned on a page
boundary (see sanity_check_segment_list()), but on MIPS the default
vmlinuz load address is only explicitly aligned to 16 bytes.

Since the largest PAGE_SIZE supported by MIPS kernels is 64KB, increase
the alignment calculated by calc_vmlinuz_load_addr to 64KB.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21131/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.36+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bec0de4cfad21bd284dbddee016ed1767a5d2823 upstream.

KEXEC needs the new kernel's load address to be aligned on a page
boundary (see sanity_check_segment_list()), but on MIPS the default
vmlinuz load address is only explicitly aligned to 16 bytes.

Since the largest PAGE_SIZE supported by MIPS kernels is 64KB, increase
the alignment calculated by calc_vmlinuz_load_addr to 64KB.

Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/21131/
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@mips.com&gt;
Cc: Steven J . Hill &lt;Steven.Hill@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Fuxin Zhang &lt;zhangfx@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Zhangjin Wu &lt;wuzhangjin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 2.6.36+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: dts: remove bogus bcm96358nb4ser.dtb from dtb-y entry</title>
<updated>2017-11-30T08:39:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-05T05:30:52+00:00</published>
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commit 3cad14d56adbf7d621fc5a35db42f3acc0a2d6e8 upstream.

arch/mips/boot/dts/brcm/bcm96358nb4ser.dts does not exist, so
we cannot build bcm96358nb4ser.dtb .

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Fixes: 695835511f96 ("MIPS: BMIPS: rename bcm96358nb4ser to bcm6358-neufbox4-sercom")
Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 3cad14d56adbf7d621fc5a35db42f3acc0a2d6e8 upstream.

arch/mips/boot/dts/brcm/bcm96358nb4ser.dts does not exist, so
we cannot build bcm96358nb4ser.dtb .

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Fixes: 695835511f96 ("MIPS: BMIPS: rename bcm96358nb4ser to bcm6358-neufbox4-sercom")
Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;jhogan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: .its targets depend on vmlinux</title>
<updated>2017-06-24T05:11:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-02T19:02:08+00:00</published>
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commit bcd7c45e0d5a82be9a64b90050f0e09d41a50758 upstream.

The .its targets require information about the kernel binary, such as
its entry point, which is extracted from the vmlinux ELF. We therefore
require that the ELF is built before the .its files are generated.
Declare this requirement in the Makefile such that make will ensure this
is always the case, otherwise in corner cases we can hit issues as the
.its is generated with an incorrect (either invalid or stale) entry
point.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: cf2a5e0bb4c6 ("MIPS: Support generating Flattened Image Trees (.itb)")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16179/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bcd7c45e0d5a82be9a64b90050f0e09d41a50758 upstream.

The .its targets require information about the kernel binary, such as
its entry point, which is extracted from the vmlinux ELF. We therefore
require that the ELF is built before the .its files are generated.
Declare this requirement in the Makefile such that make will ensure this
is always the case, otherwise in corner cases we can hit issues as the
.its is generated with an incorrect (either invalid or stale) entry
point.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: cf2a5e0bb4c6 ("MIPS: Support generating Flattened Image Trees (.itb)")
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16179/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Malta: Fixup reboot</title>
<updated>2016-11-03T23:27:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T09:17:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 10b6ea0959de ("MIPS: Malta: Use syscon-reboot driver to reboot")
converted the Malta board to use the generic syscon-reboot driver to
handle reboots, but incorrectly used the value 0x4d rather than 0x42 as
the magic to write to the reboot register.

I also incorrectly believed that syscon/regmap would default to native
endianness, but this isn't the case. Force this by specifying with a
native-endian property in the devicetree.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 10b6ea0959de ("MIPS: Malta: Use syscon-reboot driver to reboot")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14396/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Commit 10b6ea0959de ("MIPS: Malta: Use syscon-reboot driver to reboot")
converted the Malta board to use the generic syscon-reboot driver to
handle reboots, but incorrectly used the value 0x4d rather than 0x42 as
the magic to write to the reboot register.

I also incorrectly believed that syscon/regmap would default to native
endianness, but this isn't the case. Force this by specifying with a
native-endian property in the devicetree.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Fixes: 10b6ea0959de ("MIPS: Malta: Use syscon-reboot driver to reboot")
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Tested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14396/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: generic: Convert SEAD-3 to a generic board</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T16:04:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-05T17:18:21+00:00</published>
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Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and we don't want
to force a switch to the UHI protocol, SEAD-3 is added as a legacy board
which is detected by reading the REVISION register. This may technically
not be a valid memory read &amp; future work will include attempting to
handle that gracefully. In practice since SEAD-3 is the only legacy
board supported by the generic kernel so far the read will only happen
on SEAD-3 boards, and even once Malta is converted the same REVISION
register exists there too. Other boards such as Boston, Ci20 &amp; Ci40 will
use the UHI boot protocol &amp; thus not run any of the legacy board detect
functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Convert the MIPS SEAD-3 board support to be a generic board, supported
by generic kernels.

Because the SEAD-3 boot protocol was defined long ago and we don't want
to force a switch to the UHI protocol, SEAD-3 is added as a legacy board
which is detected by reading the REVISION register. This may technically
not be a valid memory read &amp; future work will include attempting to
handle that gracefully. In practice since SEAD-3 is the only legacy
board supported by the generic kernel so far the read will only happen
on SEAD-3 boards, and even once Malta is converted the same REVISION
register exists there too. Other boards such as Boston, Ci20 &amp; Ci40 will
use the UHI boot protocol &amp; thus not run any of the legacy board detect
functions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14354/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: generic: Introduce generic DT-based board support</title>
<updated>2016-10-06T16:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@imgtec.com</email>
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<published>2016-10-05T17:18:20+00:00</published>
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Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the
MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made
for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be
changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to
followon patches.

Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in
kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but
nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by
mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere &amp; map
itself appropriately.

Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using
scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc
makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg.
differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for
differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of
defconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Introduce a "generic" platform, which aims to be board-agnostic by
making use of device trees passed by the boot protocol defined in the
MIPS UHI (Universal Hosting Interface) specification. Provision is made
for supporting boards which use a legacy boot protocol that can't be
changed, but adding support for such boards or any others is left to
followon patches.

Right now the built kernels expect to be loaded to 0x80100000, ie. in
kseg0. This is fine for the vast majority of MIPS platforms, but
nevertheless it would be good to remove this limitation in the future by
mapping the kernel via the TLB such that it can be loaded anywhere &amp; map
itself appropriately.

Configuration is handled by dynamically generating configs using
scripts/kconfig/merge_config.sh, somewhat similar to the way powerpc
makes use of it. This allows for variations upon the configuration, eg.
differing architecture revisions or subsets of driver support for
differing boards, to be handled without having a large number of
defconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14353/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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