On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 12:37:42AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > My reservations may have been about userland reading /proc/cpuinfo and > > looking at the CPU type. Some software may know how to handle the > > PC/SC variants but not the MC versions. But this seems to be a fairly > > weak concern - and I trust you checked gcc's parsing of /proc/cpuinfo. > > Actually I wasn't actually aware GCC's got /proc/cpuinfo-based native > arch support for the MIPS target these days, thanks for the hint. > > I have now checked the relevant source file and support is pretty weak > there, only half a dozen processors are recognised and no R4k model is > among them. In any case strstr is used to check for matches there so I'd > expect strings like "R4000" or "R4400" without a further suffix to be > chosen. It'd be worth a change in particular for users how higher end CPUs and enhanced ISAs such as Octeons. Or should we just default to O32 w/ MIPS I + LL/SC as the MIPS Esperanto forever ... Ralf
