On 1/15/12, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:30:51AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Alexandre "asm" <asmm...@gmail.com> >> >>> >> >>>> ... >> >>> >> >>> I was using the specific sense (on the Lemote Yeeloong only). Due to >> >>> its >> >>> use of a faster ABI then most distros which still use o32 (I think all >> >>> except parabola and gentoo are still o32 based?), and also having a >> >>> bunch >> >>> of loongson2f-specific tweaks in apps etc. >> >> >> BTW, any distro using "-mabi=64"? Is it actually possible or not? > > Nixos is n32 based too - I noticed the list of non-o32 missed it. It should > be > easy to try that mabi 64 on nixos, but why would you want that?
According to this: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/WhatsWrongWithO32N32N64 n64 provides 64 bits "pointer", meaning addresses, whereas n32 doesn't, and that's the major difference, right? To me that means able to address bigger physical memory... But beyond that, here: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/TheCaseForN32 They recommend n64 and dropping n32 given there's gain in addressing space, still there's the gain in 64 bits registers as there is for n32, and there's one less ABI to support. I was just wondering, if there was then any n64 distro out there... To the extent I've look, seems not, :-) Thanks, -- Javier. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
