Re: Problems with mips2 compiled libc and linux 2.4.3

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:22:53AM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:

> > which fails if any of the high 4 bits in the flags are set. According to
> > the
> > specs these are set for the various mipsx (x != 1) flavors - this seems
> 
> > to mean
> > that we do no allow anything higher than mips1 run on linux - can this
> > be
> > true? If so, why?
> 
> There is no very good reason. I think we should add a MIPS ISA level
> field in the mips cpuinfo so that we can check what ISA the hardware
> support at the run-time.

Yes and no.  It would be nice but the available flags are not an suitable
representation of processor capabilities.

  Ralf