need MIPS expert help

[Steven J. Hill]

Sean McNeil wrote:
> 
> I need help in clarification of what an NEC MIPS vr5432 should be
> defined as.  I had thought that it was a MIPS32 compliant part, but
> binutils/gcc think that it can support a few instructions that it cannot
> (as MIPS32):
> 
The NEC VR5432 is NOT an MIPS32 compliant part. It was produced before
MIPS came out with the MIPS32 and MIPS64 cores. You should be using
the '-mcpu=r5000' and '-mips2' flags to gcc. Please read the kernel
sources next time. Cheers.

-Steve