Re: Kaffe porting issues

[Karsten Merker <karsten@excalibur.cologne.de>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:03:09PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:34:22PM -0500, John R. Daily wrote:

> > The mips/CVS kaffe code, though, has another problem: mips1 and
> > mips2 do not support the 'movn' assembler instruction used, so
> > that will have to be rewritten, or the code compiled exclusively
> > for mips3.
> 
> That's not so bad; it only eliminates r3000-series processors and earlier.
> in terms of which boxes, i think that eliminates everything prior to
> the indigo, which is prehistory as far as i'm concerned :-)

That is no problem for SGI hardware as Linux/MIPS currently does not 
support R3000 SGI systems (big endian, "mips") anyway, but for
the little endian systems ("mipsel") there are lots of R3000 based 
machines. In particular most of the DECstations are R3000-based, 
and this is one of the major targets for Debian on mipsel.

Greetings,
Karsten
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