Re: Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy

["Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>]

> > day).  Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration 
> > that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow.
>
> indeed they don't.
> do you get access to more registers or more efficient instruction sets
> like you do on x86_64?
>
>
> > What you would *really* want on such a machine would be n32 userland. 
> > You get full 64-bit instructions, but the binaries aren't huge.
Yeah, that is what n32 is for.  You get more registers, but pointers are 
still 32-bit.  You still need a mips64 CHOST to build n32 binaries, however.
Steve