Re: Mips cross toolchain

[Joe George <joeg@clearcore.net>]

> Where those patches created from the sourceforge tree or you created
> them independently?  I would hate to see the two ports diverge.

I've been syncing the sf tree.

> I already sent Ralf a patch for the 36bit support.  He told me the patch
> looks fine but it doesn't seem like he's had time to merge it in.  The
> code is in sourceforge.net

My initial patches on this came from the sf tree.  Ralf called out the
endian problem.
> Again, I've done some work for big endian support and pushed it out in
> sourceforge.net because I have write access there.  Most drivers work
> just fine in BE mode.  The exception right now is the epson 1356/1386
> video controller.  There might be some others but I don't remember.
> Certainly all the SOC peripherals work fine.

The problems I'm working on are in your tlbex-mips32.S.

> If you're submitting patches in oss, please take the latest work in
> sourceforge.net first to sync up the two.  First, you might save
> yourself some work. Second, it will keep the two ports from diverging.

Couldn't of done it without your work, I really appreciate the work
you have done.

Joe