RFC: A new MIPS64 ABI

[Matt Thomas]

On Feb 14, 2011, at 6:22 PM, David Daney wrote:

> On 02/14/2011 04:15 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> I have to wonder if it's worth the effort.  The primary problem I see
>> is that this new ABI requires a 64bit kernel since faults through the
>> upper 2G will go through the XTLB miss exception vector.
>> 
> 
> Yes, that is correct.  It is a 64-bit ABI, and like the existing n32 ABI requires a 64-bit kernel.

N32 doesn't require a LP64 kernel, just a 64-bit register aware kernel.
Your N32-big does require a LP64 kernel.