Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces

[Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>]

Ralf Baechle (ralf@linux-mips.org) writes:

> In the SGI world o32 basically has been killed - there no more 32-bit
> processors shipped since many years.  So most SGI MIPS systems are
> running N32 code by standard and N64 is available as an option which only
> is used for the small number of applications that actually are going to
> gain from it.  O32 is deprecated; at this time it's just historical garbage.

True: but just to emphasise that's SGI.

There are still lots of 32-bit MIPS CPUs about (which can't run
n32/n64, of course) which may want to run Linux, and for now o32 is
all that is available to them.

Dominic