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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:03:29 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] toolchain/mips: kill EABI and fix N32
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Le Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:28:37 -0300,
Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> a ?crit :

> MIPS EABI is a bare-metal ABI so remove it.
> Also fix uClibc to really work with N32 ABI, which used the EABI knob
> previously.

There is no support in uClibc for o64. Is this ABI really used? I see
that gcc has support for it
(http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/mipso64-abi.html), but is it used in
practice?

Also, is the BR2_MIPS_ABI_none knob actually useful?

Thanks,

Thomas
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