Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>]

> > Let me ask a stupid question.  With all of the ways to otherwise do a
> > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS?  ARM*/SH*, which are at
> > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that.  Just
> > something I've always wondered, really.
> 
> Probably because, unlike ARM and SH, the MIPS architecture began life
> as a workstation/server processor, and for a while there cross-compilation
> was the exception rather than the rule.

Before anyone else jumps in, yeah, ARM was sort-of a workstation processor
to begin with, too, but I don't think the original Acorn RISC Machine was set
up to run a "real" OS, with memory management, etc., whereas MIPS was.

            Regards,

            Kevin K.