> -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Myers [mailto:joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:53 PM > To: Ralf Baechle > Cc: David VomLehn (dvomlehn); David Daney; Maciej W. Rozycki; > linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; libc-ports@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Maciej > W. Rozycki; Richard Sandiford > Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] MIPS: Implement the getcontext API > > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > stillborn EABI and NUBI variants. Add various Linux and > GNU specific > > enhancements and deviations from the previously mentioned > documents for > > example for TLS. Frequently the documentation really is > just in the code, > > a mailing list archive or in the back of somebody's brain ... > > (Although it took a while for the documentation to catch up with the > implementation and changes made in the course of patch > review, as far as I > know <http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/NPTL> is now an accurate > description > of TLS for MIPS.) > > > Somebody could probably earn a medal by writing a single > consolidated > > and readable piece of documentation. > > Anyone seriously wishing to produce a complete and current and > copyright-clean description of what the MIPS ABIs now are > might wish to > note that a similar project for (32-bit) Power Architecture > has been going > on since late 2006 and we still haven't quite got to the point of > releasing a public review draft. There is a lot of work involved. I spent two years as Chair of the MIPS ABI Group Technical Committee working on the MIPS psABI and I can attest to how much work it is. Still, if there were enough of people involved from the kernel, compiler/library, and appropriate utility communities willing to try to pull things together, I could see spending time on it.
