On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:58:05PM -0500, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:
> > Btw, take a look at arch/mips64/kernel/head.S which looks much cleaner
> than
> > what we currently have for the 32-bit kernel. That head.S was definately
> > the single most ugly thing we had in the kernel. It's all gone now; the
> > TLB exception handlers and the CPU detection code is now in other files;
> > the later has been rewritten to C.
>
> Oooh, cool. Yes, that was an eyesore. In fact was toying with the idea of
> hacking it up (to not include exception handlers we will never need).
> So when do we get this for mips32? :-)
Lemme hack some more on the MIPS64 stuff, I want it get stable first before
I put the bits into MIPS32. Right now I'm working on stabilizing the
binary compatibility stuff for MIPS32. We neither have a 64-bit userland
nor want one for almost all cases except large memory apps, so right now I'm
putting my efforts behind the compatibility stuff. Oh, unlike the 32-bit
kernel the 64-bit kernel allows the full use of all MIPS III and MIPS IV
features including 64-bit registers even for 32-bit apps. This opens some
possibilities for optimization of performance critical code like in libc.
Ralf
