| To: | "William J. Earl" <wje@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Decstation 5000/150 2.3.21 Boot successs |
| From: | Harald Koerfgen <Harald.Koerfgen@home.ivm.de> |
| Date: | Fri, 07 Jan 2000 20:09:05 +0100 (MET) |
| Cc: | linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>, "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com> |
| In-reply-to: | <14452.58782.750095.352886@liveoak.engr.sgi.com> |
| Organization: | none |
| Reply-to: | "Harald Koerfgen" <Harald.Koerfgen@home.ivm.de> |
| Sender: | owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com |
On 06-Jan-00 William J. Earl wrote:
> Note that the SVR4 MIPS ABI assumes FR=0 (R3000-compatible), as
> do SGI IRIX "-32" ("O32") binaries (and, I believe, default gcc
> binaries). SGI IRIX "-n32" and "-n64" binaries assumes FR=1
> (R4000-compatible), and also have a somewhat different register calling
> convention (which affects where arguments to system calls reside).
Wouldn't it make sense then if we made FR=0 the default for Linux/MIPS?
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Regards,
Harald
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