thread-ready ABIs

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 11:20:00 GMT 2002


"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> I can write to k0/k1. But the value is not perserved by kernel.

Strange.  This means the registers cannot have been used so far and if
the kernel can be changed it is free.

> I don't think so. k0/k1 is reserved for OS. I don't know if OS can
> restore it for use space or not.

There are so many different MIPS implementations that I wouldn't bet
on it.  One would have to look at the minimum architecture definition.
Also, what do the new MIPS32 cores do?

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