On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 11:32:29AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Joe deBlaquiere wrote:
>
> > ll/sc emulation. If somebody wants to make a MIPS I optimized glibc,
> > then that's fine, but allowing the 'standard' MIPSII glibc to work on
> > all systems simplifies life ( mine at least ;) ).
>
> I have no objections against providing an ll/sc emulation -- I have never
> had and certainly haven't expressed them. What I insist on is to keep
> ISA-I-compiled glibc not making use of ll/sc. Anyone feel free to finish
> the emulation we have.
>
> Anyway, an ISA-II-compiled glibc won't work on an ISA I system even if
> the ll/sc emulation works. An ISA II is more than just an addition of the
> ll and sc instructions. There were also branch likely, trap and
> doubleword coprocessor load instructions added in ISA II. Do you want to
> emulate these, too?
Isnt this the reason why Linux/Mips userspace is compiles with ISA I + ll/sc ?
Flo
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