From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:10:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:36824 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133622AbWDGWKW (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:10:22 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k37MLoCT026146; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:21:50 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k37MLgCW026144; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:21:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 23:21:42 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Martin Michlmayr , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Diff between Linus' and linux-mips git: elf.h Message-ID: <20060407222142.GA26104@linux-mips.org> References: <20060219234318.GA16311@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220000141.GX10266@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220001126.GA17967@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220003128.GD17967@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20060220113420.GB5594@linux-mips.org> <20060407171910.GU6869@deprecation.cyrius.com> <090d01c65a6b$623f6480$10eca8c0@grendel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <090d01c65a6b$623f6480$10eca8c0@grendel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 11072 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 07:47:40PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Arguably, whatever's used by binutils should be the tie-breaker. > Googling around, I see that the EM_MIPS_RS3_LE value was > added in the October 4, 1999 draft of the ELF spec, but inexplicably > the alias with EM_MIPS_RS4_BE was left in place - perhaps they > were supposed to be disambiguated by some 32-vs-64-bit flag > somewhere. A random sampling of ELF documents on the web > shows the vast majority calling out RS3_LE and not RS4_BE. No way to actually resolve this one; not even binutils oldtimer Ian Lance Taylor can remember the reasons for the change anymore. Ralf