On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:22:53AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote: > > 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. Yes and no. It would be nice but the available flags are not an suitable representation of processor capabilities. Ralf
