On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Dan Malek wrote: > If you do this, I suggest using another PowerPC-ism. They > have a ppc_md data structure that is filled with indirect function > pointers to machine dependent functions. We could create > a mips_md that does this same thing. The reason I like this > is it collects all machine dependent information in a single > place, so it's easy to see what functions/data are available > and what you may need to do. It's also clear when used > that anything in this structure is a machine/board dependent > function. In the proper places, you then do what is shown above: Well, that's actually Alpha-ism, which has been that port since 1998 or so and is a long-term plan for our multi-platform support too. :-) If you want to implement it right now, please go ahead! Maciej