Broadcom XLP support

[Andrew Pinski]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 3:51 PM, ANDY KENNEDY <ANDY.KENNEDY@adtran.com> wrote:
>> you want proper support (and E_MIPS_MACH_XLP fixed in the ABI), then I
>> suggest persuading Broadcom to submit their change properly for inclusion
>> with FSF sources.  I'll be happy to review it.
>
> On this score, they did.  I believe they contracted the toolchain changes
> through someone like codesourcery.  The primary guy that knew about this
> processor recently resigned from Broadcom, whether the new people
> have the inclination to push back to you is unknown.  It appears that
> the contractor for the toolchain pushed back to openembedded in place
> of directly to you.  If I were to give you the original patch against
> 2.24, would that be acceptable to you?

Note the main reason why they pushed back to openembedded was because
it was a requirement for windriver's toolchain instead of fully
upstream :).
Anyways I pushed the octeon3 changes upstream so I did not have to
support windriver or openembedded folks they could just grab the patch
from upstream.

Thanks,
Andrew

>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
>>
>>  HTH,
>>
>>   Maciej