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From: Jaydeep Patil <Jaydeep.Patil@imgtec.com>
To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: [MUSL] microMIPS32R2 O32 port
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:54:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BD7773622145634B952E5B54ACA8E349DAE2C7C6@PUMAIL01.pu.imgtec.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170407141941.GQ17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

Hi Rich,

We can reuse existing MIPS code for microMIPS. There are places where we read from $ra must be compiled for MIPS.
Please refer to https://github.com/JaydeepIMG/musl-1/tree/micromips32r2_v2 for modifications.

Thanks,
Jaydeep

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Felker [mailto:dalias@aerifal.cx] On Behalf Of Rich Felker
>Sent: 07 April 2017 PM 07:50
>To: musl@lists.openwall.com
>Subject: Re: [musl] [MUSL] microMIPS32R2 O32 port
>
>On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 06:47:57AM +0000, Jaydeep Patil wrote:
>> Hi Rich,
>>
>> microMIPS is an Application Specific Extension (ASE) to MIPS cores.
>> Both microMIPS and MIPS can co-exist. MIPS code can call microMIPS and
>> vice-versa. microMIPS is a compressed ISA and contains both 16 and
>> 32-bit instructions for code size benefit.
>
>In that case I'm confused what the benefit of compiling the asm files as
>micromips rather than plain mips is. Is it just to save 10 bytes here and there?
>
>Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-12 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-05  6:33 Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-06 16:18 ` dalias
2017-04-07  6:47   ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-07 14:19     ` Rich Felker
2017-04-12 11:54       ` Jaydeep Patil [this message]
2017-04-12 19:25         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-04-12 20:27           ` Rich Felker
2017-04-12 21:47             ` Andre McCurdy
2017-04-13  4:29               ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-13  9:00                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-04-13 10:37                   ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-21  9:40                     ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-21 13:33                     ` Rich Felker
2017-04-24  5:30                       ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-24 13:48                         ` Rich Felker
2017-04-25  4:45                           ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-25 16:52                             ` Rich Felker
2017-04-26  7:14                               ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-05-11  3:25                                 ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-05-17  8:28                                   ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-05-26  3:46                                   ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-05-28  2:00                                     ` Rich Felker
2017-05-31 13:11                                       ` Rich Felker
2017-06-01  4:21                                         ` Jaydeep Patil
2017-04-21 13:26                 ` Rich Felker

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