Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org) writes: > In the SGI world o32 basically has been killed - there no more 32-bit > processors shipped since many years. So most SGI MIPS systems are > running N32 code by standard and N64 is available as an option which only > is used for the small number of applications that actually are going to > gain from it. O32 is deprecated; at this time it's just historical garbage. True: but just to emphasise that's SGI. There are still lots of 32-bit MIPS CPUs about (which can't run n32/n64, of course) which may want to run Linux, and for now o32 is all that is available to them. Dominic
