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Re: [PATCH/RFA] Add support for OpenBSD/mips64


   Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:41:42 +0200
   From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>

   Is the use of *trad*mips for 64bit targets intentional? It means that
   o32 ELF objects from the mips64*-*-openbsd* target are incompatible to
   ones from mips*-*-openbsd*.

[Putting my OpenBSD hat on]

Quite so.  OpenBSD/sgi is a new fully 64-bit platform as far as
OpenBSD is concerned, which currently is the only member of the
OpenBSD/mips64 family.  Currently is runs on the SGI O2, although
support for the SGI Origin200 is being worked on.

In the past we had OpenBSD/arc and OpenBSD/pmax running on hardware
using MIPS CPU's.  I believe both were little-endian.  Support for
these platforms has been dropped several years ago, and as far as
we're concerned, they're completely disjoint from OpenBSD/sgi.

That said, the remaining mips*-*-openbsd* entries in config.bfd can
probably be dropped, although they might still be useful for people
playing around with the old OpenBSD/pmax.

Mark


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