Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:07:54 -0400 From: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> To: Juli Mallett <juli@clockworksquid.com>, "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Unbreaking ports with n64 MIPS. Message-ID: <AC6674AB7BC78549BB231821ABF7A9AEB82D2FE68C@EMBX01-WF.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <CACVs6=8z4BYcpQ=jVKLLb7v2LmSD-MRxXQdYRrOj-hG1j572Cg@mail.gmail.com>
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I'd be fine with this. There should be a simple default for mips64, and big endian does seem to be the default assumption.
I've never used the n32 port though.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-mips@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> mips@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Juli Mallett
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:47 AM
> To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Unbreaking ports with n64 MIPS.
>
> All,
>
> Does anyone object to changing the target name of mips64eb to be
> rendered as mips64? It's difficult to build ports because although
> the redundant "mipseb" as widely-recognized as synonymous as "mips",
> our quirky use of "mips64eb" instead of "mips64" just plain breaks
> stuff. "mips64el" is, of course, recognized, but it's generally
> assumed that MIPS is big-endian by default. I understand this
> assumption wasn't made in FreeBSD because the port that was committed
> focused early on a number of little-endian MIPS systems, but it seems
> worthwhile to switch. I'm happy to make the relevant changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Juli.
>
> PS: This may only need to be changed in how we name things in our GCC
> and binutils to fix ports, but I'd rather change everything else to
> match for the sake of consistency.
>
> PPS: What to do for n32? I think mips64{,el} is right for GCC and
> binutils, with something like "n32" in the OS name, but I haven't
> booted IRIX in almost a decade, so I can't remember what the
> convention is. I don't even know if there's software in ports that
> would care.
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