RFC: mips target support for Juniper Apollo

[Thiemo Seufer]

Eric Christopher wrote:
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> > > Do I have to add an include/elf/apollo.h file?
> > 
> > You could just include mips.h there.
> 
> I don't see a need for this.

There's probably a better way, I haven't looked at the code.

> > > This could potentially end up being a very big patch if I have to
> > > duplicate a lot of MIPS specific code.
> 
> I'd like to avoid this if possible. I can see the use of an elf flag to
> stop possible interlinking - but I don't think we need to make Jim go to
> contortions to make this work. Duplicated code is a bad thing and we
> should avoid it if possible.

In general, agreed.

> As long as there's a generic method to stop
> interlinking for architectures without branch delay slots i think we're
> going to be ok here.

But we should avoid to add one more non-standard header flag. MIPS
already has to many.


Thiemo