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Linus Torvalds c6f2f3e2c8 Add partial Loongarch architecture code
This is the majority of the loongarch architecture code, including
 the final system call interface and all core functionality.
 
 It still misses three sets of peripheral but vital patches to add
 support for other subsystems, which have yet to pass review:
 
  - The drivers/firmware/efi stub for booting from a standard UEFI
    firmware implementation. Both the original custom boot interface
    and a draft implementation of the EFI stub did not make it, so
    it is currently impossible to boot the kernel, until the
    loongarch specific portions get accepted into the UEFI subsystem
 
  - The drivers/irqchip/irq-loongson-*.c drivers are shared with the
    the MIPS port, but currently lack support for ACPI based booting,
    which will get merged through the irqchip subsystem.
 
  - Similarly, the drivers/pci/controller/pci-loongson.c needs to be
    modified for ACPI support, which will be merged through the
    PCI subsystem.
 
 While the port cannot actually be used before all the above are
 merged, having it in 5.19 helps to establish the user space ABI
 for the libc ports to build on, and to help any treewide changes
 in the mainline kernel get applied here as well. A gcc-12 based
 tool chains for build testing is now included in
 https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/.
 
 Original description from Huacai Chen at
 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220603072053.35005-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/:
 
  "LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
   LoongArch includes a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit
   version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). LoongArch use ACPI as its
   boot protocol LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers (similar to APIC)
   are already added in the next revision of ACPI Specification (current
   revision is 6.4).
 
   This patchset is adding basic LoongArch support in mainline kernel, we
   can see a complete snapshot here:
   https://github.com/loongson/linux/tree/loongarch-next
   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson.git/log/?h=loongarch-next
 
   Cross-compile tool chain to build kernel:
   https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-2022-03-03-cross-tools-gcc-glibc.tar.xz
 
   A CLFS-based Linux distro:
   https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-system-2022-03-03.tar.bz2
 
   Open-source tool chain which is under review (Binutils and Gcc are already upstream):
   https://github.com/loongson/binutils-gdb/tree/upstream_v3.1
   https://github.com/loongson/gcc/tree/loongarch_upstream_v6.3
   https://github.com/loongson/glibc/tree/loongarch_2_35_dev_v2.2
 
   Loongson and LoongArch documentations:
   https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation
 
   LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers:
   https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2203
   https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2313"
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Merge tag 'loongarch-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull initial Loongarch architecture code from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This is the majority of the loongarch architecture code, including the
  final system call interface and all core functionality.

  It still misses three sets of peripheral but vital patches to add
  support for other subsystems, which have yet to pass review:

   - The drivers/firmware/efi stub for booting from a standard UEFI
     firmware implementation. Both the original custom boot interface
     and a draft implementation of the EFI stub did not make it, so it
     is currently impossible to boot the kernel, until the loongarch
     specific portions get accepted into the UEFI subsystem

   - The drivers/irqchip/irq-loongson-*.c drivers are shared with the
     the MIPS port, but currently lack support for ACPI based booting,
     which will get merged through the irqchip subsystem.

   - Similarly, the drivers/pci/controller/pci-loongson.c needs to be
     modified for ACPI support, which will be merged through the PCI
     subsystem.

  While the port cannot actually be used before all the above are
  merged, having it in 5.19 helps to establish the user space ABI for
  the libc ports to build on, and to help any treewide changes in the
  mainline kernel get applied here as well.

  A gcc-12 based tool chains for build testing is now included in

    https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/"

Original description from Huacai Chen:
 "LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
  LoongArch includes a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit
  version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64). LoongArch use ACPI as its
  boot protocol LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers (similar to APIC)
  are already added in the next revision of ACPI Specification (current
  revision is 6.4).

  This patchset is adding basic LoongArch support in mainline kernel, we
  can see a complete snapshot here:

    https://github.com/loongson/linux/tree/loongarch-next
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson.git/log/?h=loongarch-next

  Cross-compile tool chain to build kernel:

    https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-2022-03-03-cross-tools-gcc-glibc.tar.xz

  A CLFS-based Linux distro:

    https://github.com/loongson/build-tools/releases/download/2021.12.21/loongarch64-clfs-system-2022-03-03.tar.bz2

  Open-source tool chain which is under review (Binutils and Gcc are already upstream):

    https://github.com/loongson/binutils-gdb/tree/upstream_v3.1
    https://github.com/loongson/gcc/tree/loongarch_upstream_v6.3
    https://github.com/loongson/glibc/tree/loongarch_2_35_dev_v2.2

  Loongson and LoongArch documentations:

    https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation

  LoongArch-specific interrupt controllers:

    https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2203
    https://mantis.uefi.org/mantis/view.php?id=2313"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220603072053.35005-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/

* tag 'loongarch-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (24 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer information for LoongArch
  LoongArch: Add Loongson-3 default config file
  LoongArch: Add Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) support
  LoongArch: Add multi-processor (SMP) support
  LoongArch: Add VDSO and VSYSCALL support
  LoongArch: Add some library functions
  LoongArch: Add misc common routines
  LoongArch: Add ELF and module support
  LoongArch: Add signal handling support
  LoongArch: Add system call support
  LoongArch: Add memory management
  LoongArch: Add process management
  LoongArch: Add exception/interrupt handling
  LoongArch: Add boot and setup routines
  LoongArch: Add other common headers
  LoongArch: Add atomic/locking headers
  LoongArch: Add CPU definition headers
  LoongArch: Add build infrastructure
  LoongArch: Add writecombine support for drm
  LoongArch: Add ELF-related definitions
  ...
2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
arch Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
block for-5.19/drivers-2022-06-02 2022-06-03 10:25:56 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.19 2022-05-26 12:09:50 -07:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-05-27 18:06:49 -07:00
Documentation Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
drivers Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
fs Driver core changes for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-03 11:48:47 -07:00
include Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
init RISC-V Patches for the 5.19 Merge Window, Part 1 2022-05-31 14:10:54 -07:00
ipc ipc/mqueue: use get_tree_nodev() in mqueue_get_tree() 2022-05-09 18:29:21 -07:00
kernel arm64 fixes for 5.19-rc1: 2022-06-03 14:05:34 -07:00
lib Driver core changes for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-03 11:48:47 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm RISC-V Patches for the 5.19 Merge Window, Part 1 2022-05-31 14:10:54 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.19-rc1, including fixes from bpf, and netfilter. 2022-06-02 12:50:16 -07:00
samples drm for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 16:18:27 -07:00
scripts Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
security linux-kselftest-kunit-5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 11:32:53 -07:00
sound USB / Thunderbolt changes for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-03 11:17:49 -07:00
tools Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt VFIO updates for v5.19-rc1 2022-06-01 13:49:15 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: Update Lorenzo Pieralisi's email address 2022-05-31 15:06:19 -05:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Add partial Loongarch architecture code 2022-06-03 14:09:21 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.19 2022-05-26 12:09:50 -07:00
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