Re: Adding(?) XI support to MIPS-Linux?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:32:59PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> That is correct, though there has long been interest in having XI/RI as an 
> option
> for non-SmartMIPS cores and I would not be surprised if sooner or later it
> became more generally available.

Cavium has it in their 64-bit core.  I haven't verified this in the docs
but apparently it is meant to be compatible with the old SmartMIPS ASE
for MIPS32.

  Ralf