Re: mipseb-linux support (sgi indy's)

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 07:55:53PM -0600, job bogan wrote:
> One thing that's somewhat questionable about this patch.  I set the
> default cpu to a R4000.  i think that will still work on R3000s, but i'm
> not sure.  For the moment, it;s a moot point since i think there are no
> R3000 big endian machines that will boot linux.

You may be right -- all of the mips1 machines I could find
examining the kernel source were little endian.

What I am more concerned about is the practice of copying a header and
tweeking one or two items within.  I would much prefer to see configure
set target_cpu_default to include MASK_BIG_ENDIAN, and to use one common
Linux include which defines as little as possible over the standard ELF
include.

I would personally like to see the TARGET_ENDIAN_DEFAULT that currently
exists in config/mips/ replaced with just TARGET_CPU_DEFAULT, and all
then-extraneous header files removed.

> If this is deemed large enough to require a formal copyright assignment,
> that's no big deal.  just let me know.

It will require an assignment.


r~