tim weiss started work on kencc mips64 port and I started (w/o the compiler) playing with Plan 9 on mips64 based on the old carrera port.
the stupid initial code is at http://src.oitobits.net/9sgi On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Anthony Sorace <ano...@gmail.com> wrote: >> i was looking at this a week or two ago, trying to find an ARM or MIPS >> laptop to play with. my first question was whether the "missing" parts >> of the MIPS instruction set are things that our compilers currently >> generate; SoC (oh, and my day job) ramped up before i could find the >> list of missing instructions. any idea? >> >> getting quotes or delivery in the US seemed tricky, too. > > so, here's a silghtly controversial (maybe) suggestion. Maybe my > memory is wrong, but i believe the vx32 kernel is gcc-compiled. There > is gcc for this CPU. It might be easier to start from the vx32 kernel > and gcc to target this machine, rather than do a 64-bit MIPS port of > the plan 9 C compiler. Or not: a few of the folks on this list could > probably retarget in very short order (I'm not one of the,however). > > ron > > -- iru
