From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Pichai Raghavan <ragh_avan@rediffmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: applications compiled with mips16 ISA
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 20:36:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220203601.A31626@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021220142459.1029.qmail@webmail8.rediffmail.com>; from ragh_avan@rediffmail.com on Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:24:59PM -0000
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 02:24:59PM -0000, Pichai Raghavan wrote:
> Has anyone put MIPS16 based applications on Linux 2.4.2 kernel? We
> want to use this to get more flash storage but unaware of the
> issues behind this. For ex: how will the loader work; will shared
> libraries compiled with MIPS16 work with MIPS32 applications. Can
> anyone thow light on this topic or point to us to some relevant
> documentation?
Linux running on MIPS16 CPUs has been used to verify CPU designs. So
all the fundamental problems have been solved. However there's no
application or library support, so you'd be pretty much alone. The
general assumption is that MIPS16 systems in general are too small to
be sensibly used with Linux so there is no support for MIPS16 ASE.
Since MIPS16 is just an extension on top of another instructions set
such as MIPS32 there is nothing that prevents you from using just
that instruction set only, you'd loose the benefits of MIPS16 that
way.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-20 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-20 14:24 applications compiled with mips16 ISA Pichai Raghavan
2002-12-20 19:36 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-12-23 8:07 ` Dominic Sweetman
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