Release of Linux MTI-3.14-LTS kernel

Imagination Technologies is pleased to announce the release of its 3.14 LTS (Long-Term Support) MIPS kernel. The changelog below is based off the stable Linux 3.14.10 release done by Greg Kroah-Hartman in commit bbae7add628cfe96a1facd578dd1eddcd1030de7 back on June 30th. The code repository is hosted at the Linux/MIPS project GIT:

http://git.linux-mips.org/?p=linux-mti.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-mti-3.14

We look forward to any comments or feedback.

The Imagination MIPS Kernel Team

ChangeLog:

Upstream:
- Move to Linux 3.14.10

Userland visible changes:
- MIPS 32/64 seccomp support
- Do not set any FCSR cause bits from userland

Boot setup related changes:
- SMP/CPS support
- Deprecate SMP/CMP

New drivers and features:
- m5150 support
- p5600 support
- perf support for interAptiv/proAptiv/p5600
- EVA support
- Malta power management support
- Malta powering down support
- Hardware Table Walker support
- MAAR support
- Dedicated RI/XI exception handlers
- Hotplug support
- cpuidle support

Developer visible changes:
- SMTC removal
- Enable DEVTMPFS on malta_defconfigs
- Add more microassembler instructions
- 16K by default on Malta SMP defconfigs
- Set max cpus to 8 on Malta SMP defconfigs

Fixes:
- Detect instruction cache aliases
- Fix 1074K CPU support
- GIC fixes
- KVM T&E fixes
- sead3/BE networking fix
- Misc other code fixes, build fixes and cleanups

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