This mips32r2 requirement also appears to exclude Cavium Octeon: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-cavium-octeon/cpu-feature-overrides.h#n50
If that's accurate, it would be worth mentioning in the release notes as well. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:10 AM, James Cowgill <jcowg...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > On 19/08/16 22:42, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> This is something to be expected as the mips and mipsel port now >> defaults to using R2 instructions set. This means the Loongson 2 >> CPUs are not supported anymore (this includes the Yeeloong machine). >> >> I have asked many times to document this changes in the release notes, >> but this hasn't been done yet. I am therefore reassigning the bug there, >> Cc:ing debian-mips so that somone can take care of that. > > How about the attached patch? It's loosely based on the i686 notes just > above. > > I also changed the "human readable" mips architecture names since all > the other arches seem to have them. > > James
