[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] mediatek: enable support for vfpv4 and neon

[Christian Lamparter]

On Sunday, December 11, 2016 9:13:56 AM CET John Crispin wrote:
> 
> On 25/11/2016 20:57, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > While researching for the armvirt target, I looked at the
> > existing arm platforms. It turns out that the mediatek target
> > with its sole MT7623N/A chip is sold as a "highly integrated
> > multimedia network router system-on-chip". To that end, it
> > lists support for the "NEON multimedia processing engine with
> > SIMDv2 / VFPv4 ISA support".
> > 
> > <http://topics.mediatek.com/en/products/connectivity/wifi/home-network/wifi-ap/mt7623na/>
> > 
> > So this patch enables the CPU_SUBTYPE to use this information.
> > This should have the nice side effect that LEDE's phase2 builders
> > no longer need to built a separate "cortex-a7" target, so this
> > should free up some resources.
> > 
> > Cc: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at gmail.com>
> 
> sorry took me ages to build/boot an image. merged into my staging tree
> just now

Looks like this was silently dropped? Doesn't the CPU like NEON/VFPV4
or was the patch lost in a rebase?

Regards,
Christian