From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/11233 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jaydeep Patil Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: RE: [MUSL] microMIPS32R2 O32 port Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:54:10 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20170406161804.GM17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20170407141941.GQ17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491998069 24158 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2017 11:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:54:29 +0000 (UTC) To: "musl@lists.openwall.com" Original-X-From: musl-return-11248-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Apr 12 13:54:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cyGqt-0006Bh-Fr for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:54:23 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7269 invoked by uid 550); 12 Apr 2017 11:54:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 7248 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2017 11:54:25 -0000 Thread-Topic: [musl] [MUSL] microMIPS32R2 O32 port Thread-Index: AdKt1iVvBw5zYQz8QaWQDACqF692CAA7R8oAACltEkAABLsbgAEB0oLg In-Reply-To: <20170407141941.GQ17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Accept-Language: en-IN, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [192.168.93.60] Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:11233 Archived-At: Hi Rich, We can reuse existing MIPS code for microMIPS. There are places where we re= ad 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