From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:06:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from vigor.karmaclothing.net ([217.169.26.28]:46017 "EHLO vigor.karmaclothing.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20024548AbYFKJGX (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:06:23 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by vigor.karmaclothing.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m5B963HE030040; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:06:03 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m5B961sC030027; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:06:01 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:06:01 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Brian Foster , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Andrew Dyer Subject: Re: Adding(?) XI support to MIPS-Linux? Message-ID: <20080611090601.GB19755@linux-mips.org> References: <200806091658.10937.brian.foster@innova-card.com> <484D856B.5030306@paralogos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <484D856B.5030306@paralogos.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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: 19470 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 Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:32:59PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > That is correct, though there has long been interest in having XI/RI as an > option > for non-SmartMIPS cores and I would not be surprised if sooner or later it > became more generally available. Cavium has it in their 64-bit core. I haven't verified this in the docs but apparently it is meant to be compatible with the old SmartMIPS ASE for MIPS32. Ralf