MIPS: Probe the I6500 CPU
Introduce the I6500 PRID & probe it just the same way as I6400. The MIPS I6500 is the latest in Imagination Technologies' I-Class range of CPUs, with a focus on scalability & heterogeneity. It introduces the notion of multiple clusters to the MIPS Coherent Processing System, allowing for a far higher total number of cores & threads in a system when compared with its predecessors. Clusters don't need to be identical, and may contain differing numbers of cores & IOCUs, or cores with differing properties. This patch alone adds the basic support for booting Linux on an I6500 CPU without support for any of its new functionality, for which support will be introduced in further patches. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16190/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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