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Re: RFA: command line switches for QED series of MIPS processors.
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: command line switches for QED series of MIPS processors.
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:51:44 -0600
- cc: jvickers at dial dot pipex dot com, gavin at cygnus dot com, ulfc at calypso dot engr dot sgi dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200006172152.OAA28095@elmo.cygnus.com>you write:
> : Since you only add QED CPUs, and not e.g. (NEC) VR5432, VR5264
> : or (IDT) RC64574, RC64575, it looks - in itself - like a marketing
> : exercise commisioned by QED.
>
> This is probably correct. All I know is that as part of a contract
> with QED we (Cygnus/Red Hat) were asked to add these command line
> switches and to contribute them back to the net community.
QED wants their users to be able to supply flags for the QED chips and
has paid Cygnus/Red Hat to make such options available to QED.
We agreed to contribute those changes to the official tree; however, if the
changes are rejected by the community, then they will not go into the
official sources.
> There may be more optimisations to follow, but if so, I am not
> scheduled to do the work, so I do not know what might be involved.
I have no idea.
jeff