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On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 04:47:30PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > For the above reasons, I think what you are concerned is not a
> > big deal.
> I don't think so, this is obviously a regression. If we can accept a
> regression of RS780E, why we still maintain Loongson-2EF rather than
> simply drop them?

While I much prefer to use the default, regression an otherwise
working platform seems like a bad idea.  I don't really know much
about the Loongson platforms, do they all boot using the same kernel
image?