From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6NEn6Rw028520 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:49:06 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g6NEn6bq028519 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:49:06 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (shaft17-f249.dialo.tiscali.de [62.246.17.249]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g6NEn0Rw028510 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:49:02 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6NEniB31573; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:49:44 +0200 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:49:44 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , linux-mips@fnet.fr, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [patch] linux: cpu_probe(): remove 32-bit CPU bits for MIPS64 Message-ID: <20020723164944.A31534@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <003b01c23256$b262f080$1604c0d8@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <003b01c23256$b262f080$1604c0d8@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:38:58PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > My personal bleief is that the mips and mips64 trees > should ultimately be merged, and that creating additional > and gratuitous differences should be avoided. A first attempt at building a unifying 32-bit and 64-bit kernel was so ugly that I dumped all that as of 2.0.14. Ralf