On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 08:11:36PM +0200, Brian Murphy wrote: > > it is linked with a glibc compiled with -mips2. It is the second if test I patched my kernel to get around it. > > which fails if any of the high 4 bits in the flags are set. According to > the > specs these are set for the various mipsx (x != 1) flavors - this seems > to mean > that we do no allow anything higher than mips1 run on linux - can this > be > true? If so, why? There is no very good reason. I think we should add a MIPS ISA level field in the mips cpuinfo so that we can check what ISA the hardware support at the run-time. H.J.
