Re: [9fans] I can not remember if I sent this or not: MIPS-64 (sort of) notebook

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

tim weiss started work on kencc mips64 port and I started (w/o the
compiler) playing with Plan 9 on mips64 based on the old carrera port.

the stupid initial code is at http://src.oitobits.net/9sgi

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:24 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Anthony Sorace <anothy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> i was looking at this a week or two ago, trying to find an ARM or MIPS
>> laptop to play with. my first question was whether the "missing" parts
>> of the MIPS instruction set are things that our compilers currently
>> generate; SoC (oh, and my day job) ramped up before i could find the
>> list of missing instructions. any idea?
>>
>> getting quotes or delivery in the US seemed tricky, too.
>
> so, here's a silghtly controversial (maybe) suggestion. Maybe my
> memory is wrong, but i believe the vx32 kernel is gcc-compiled. There
> is gcc for this CPU. It might be easier to start from the vx32 kernel
> and gcc to target this machine, rather than do a 64-bit MIPS port of
> the plan 9 C compiler. Or not: a few of the folks on this list could
> probably retarget in very short order (I'm not one of the,however).
>
> ron
>
>



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iru