[patch] MIPS testsuite -- disable some tests for octeon

[Catherine Moore]

Are you planning to fix the gas testsuite for octeon as part of your ongoing work?

> Catherine Moore <clm@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> These tests are inappropriate for octeon.  This patch disables them.  Okay
>> to install?
> 
> Well, I think this is going to be a little bit more complicated than this.
> Octeon does support these instructions it just depends on whether it is run in
> compatibility mode or not.  For example our linux toolchain uses MIPS
> unaligned instructions whereas our elf toolchain uses Octeon unaligned
> instructions.
> 
> I am planning to sort out how to best support this on mainline in the patch
> that will add Octeon unaligned instruction support.  If there is interest I
> can work on that after the current patch which adds the less problematic
> Octeon instructions.
> 
> Adam