Bug#834844: release-notes: document that mips* arches now require a R2 CPU

2016-08-25 Thread Ed Swierk
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 2

Bug#834844: release-notes: document that mips* arches now require a R2 CPU

2016-08-25 Thread Ed Swierk
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:42 AM, James Cowgill wrote: > *sigh* Cavium Octeon machines do support R2 (mips32r2 is a subset of > mips64r2) but for some reason unknown to me, don't actually expose this. > I've adjusted the check to look for mips64r2 as well and attached a new > patch. Looks good. Th