Re: Introducing a nanoMIPS port for Linux

2018-05-04 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 9:24 AM, James Hogan wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:51 PM, James Hogan wrote: >> >> While I haven't looked at the individual changes, I wonder whether >> it would be useful to make this new ABI use 64-bit

Re: Introducing a nanoMIPS port for Linux

2018-05-04 Thread James Hogan
On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:51 PM, James Hogan wrote: > > > Due to the binary incompatibility between previous MIPS architecture > > generations and nanoMIPS, and the significantly revamped compiler ABI, > > where for the first time, a

Re: Introducing a nanoMIPS port for Linux

2018-05-03 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:51 PM, James Hogan wrote: > Due to the binary incompatibility between previous MIPS architecture > generations and nanoMIPS, and the significantly revamped compiler ABI, > where for the first time, a single Linux kernel would not be expected to > handle both old and new A