Re: MIPS64

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:12:25PM -0400, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:

> > > Good news.  I think this is a good move, especially if a flood of new
> ports
> > > to new device starts pouring in from our project (LinuxCE).  There are
> > > already three new platoforms and two new processors on the drawing board
> > > now.
> >
> > Note that it's not compeltly impossible, just unattractive to make a
> > generic kernel.  So if necessary we can do it.
> 
> I'm also thinking that platform-specifc kernels will be smaller and
> potentially faster (less indirection), which is especially important on
> platforms like the Clio and Cassiopea.

For many systems we cannot drop all indirections.  For example the Indy
shipped with a large number of CPU options, each of which we have an
optimized routine for.

  Ralf