Hi Philippe, > > That would be programs not compiled by GCC, as explained in the first > > sentence of the body text. The subject line is very brief by necessity > > since it is limited to 72 or so characters. It was an attempt to qualify > > the subject line "initial support for MIPS R5900", which you previously > > rejected. I agree that there are probably better wordings. > > What about "linux-user support for MIPS R5900"?
This support comes with limitations which would be appropriate to acknowledge. Aleksandar has rejected both "initial" and "GCC programs" as subject line qualifications. I suppose we need to find other words to express this. > > I used the Gentoo sys-devel/crossdev package > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Crossdev > > > > with a couple of patches mainly to simplify the handling of LL/SC and > > floating point support, avoiding complications with additional configure and > > compiler flags. I plan to submit these patches, in some form, for GAS and > > GCC inclusion. However, building Gentoo for R5900 is quite a bit more than > > the necessities for R5900 QEMU user mode testing purposes. > > We could manage to build a docker mips-r5900 cross-compiler image, such: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg06908.html > > But we'll need your patches. Nice. :) I'm happy to post GAS and GCC patches along with details. Fredrik
