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Re: MIPS R5900 support => Disabling a few I2 instructions
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Thiemo Seufer <ths at networkno dot de>
- Cc: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>, Ed Schouten <ed at fxq dot nl>,Binutils Hackers <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 17:58:10 -0400
- Subject: Re: MIPS R5900 support => Disabling a few I2 instructions
- References: <20050430212229.GD30486@fxq.nl> <17013.17635.913601.214802@casey.transmeta.com> <20050501213721.GH16684@hattusa.textio>
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 11:37:22PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > I'm confused by "That's why I chose to define it as a MIPS3 CPU."
> >
> > That suggests all of Cygnus's work circa 1998/1999 didn't get
> > folded back into the FSF tree. I know the dvp stuff didn't get
> > folded back :-(, but the mips stuff too?
>
> There are quite a lot of patches from various embedded mips toolchains
> which never found their way in the FSF tree.
I believe that the fact that these particular bits haven't been
contributed is mostly accidental; the thing to do is to flog Eric C.
harder until he does it :-)
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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