Re: [PATCH] add MIPS assembler version of twofish crypto algorithm

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

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:

Ah, also we unfortunately still support assemblers older than binutils 2.18
but and support for the software names of the registers was introduced
in 2.18, so <asm/mipsregs.h> should be used to get the definitions for the
register names.

Another advantage of doing this is that we get rid of the ugly $ prefix of
register names.

Cheers,

  Ralf