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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>,
	"Tom Rini" <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	"Thiemo Seufer" <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: "Tim Bird" <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:32:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <028901c66fc2$3ff139f0$10eca8c0@grendel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 028201c66fc1$4f724d20$10eca8c0@grendel

> > Let me ask a stupid question.  With all of the ways to otherwise do a
> > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS?  ARM*/SH*, which are at
> > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that.  Just
> > something I've always wondered, really.
> 
> Probably because, unlike ARM and SH, the MIPS architecture began life
> as a workstation/server processor, and for a while there cross-compilation
> was the exception rather than the rule.

Before anyone else jumps in, yeah, ARM was sort-of a workstation processor
to begin with, too, but I don't think the original Acorn RISC Machine was set
up to run a "real" OS, with memory management, etc., whereas MIPS was.

            Regards,

            Kevin K.

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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>,
	Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:32:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <028901c66fc2$3ff139f0$10eca8c0@grendel> (raw)
Message-ID: <20060504213229.7L110evKL87LW6rERuTh-wDpOeskS3OEejtS1Kcjiio@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 028201c66fc1$4f724d20$10eca8c0@grendel

> > Let me ask a stupid question.  With all of the ways to otherwise do a
> > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS?  ARM*/SH*, which are at
> > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that.  Just
> > something I've always wondered, really.
> 
> Probably because, unlike ARM and SH, the MIPS architecture began life
> as a workstation/server processor, and for a while there cross-compilation
> was the exception rather than the rule.

Before anyone else jumps in, yeah, ARM was sort-of a workstation processor
to begin with, too, but I don't think the original Acorn RISC Machine was set
up to run a "real" OS, with memory management, etc., whereas MIPS was.

            Regards,

            Kevin K.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04 19:35 [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Tim Bird
2006-05-04 20:55 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-05-04 21:04   ` Tom Rini
2006-05-04 21:25     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:25       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:32       ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2006-05-04 21:32         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-05-04 21:44       ` Tom Rini
2006-05-04 23:06     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-05-04 23:14       ` Tom Rini
2006-05-04 23:34         ` Tom Rini
2006-05-05  7:45           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-05-05 18:45             ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-05-08 18:35       ` [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from envir onment var Tim Bird
2006-05-08 18:56         ` Dan Malek
2006-05-04 21:17   ` [PATCH] fix mips/Makefile to support CROSS_COMPILE from environment var Tim Bird
2006-05-04 22:35     ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-05-08 18:22       ` Tim Bird

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