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~
