From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1269 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: initial version of mips port committed Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:32:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20120711083203.GY544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341995603 4326 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2012 08:33:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:33:23 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1270-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Jul 11 10:33:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SosMF-00015N-Tv for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:33:16 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3126 invoked by uid 550); 11 Jul 2012 08:33:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 3118 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2012 08:33:14 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1269 Archived-At: from the commit message: initial version of mips (o32) port, based on work by Richard Pennington (rdp) basically, this version of the code was obtained by starting with rdp's work from his ellcc source tree, adapting it to musl's build system and coding style, auditing the bits headers for discrepencies with kernel definitions or glibc/LSB ABI or large file issues, fixing up incompatibility with the old binutils from aboriginal linux, and adding some new special cases to deal with the oddities of sigaction and pipe syscall interfaces on mips. at present, minimal test programs work, but some interfaces are broken or missing. threaded programs probably will not link.