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From: "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <ilya@total-knowledge.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>,
	Frederic TEMPORELLI - astek <ftemporelli@astek.fr>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: IP32 - issues with last CVS snapshoot
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:34:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <420D08C1.8050105@total-knowledge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61L.0502111915510.30117@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote:
>
>  
>
>>O64 may not be supported ABI, but it provides us with a feature that is really
>>usefull:
>>specifically, it generates 32 bit symbol addresses instead of 64 bit ones.
>>This cuts
>>down on code size considerably. If this feature was implemented in toolchain
>>as separate
>>switch, O64 hack could go away.
>>    
>>
>
> Well, the topic has been beaten to death here, so you don't really need 
>to illuminate me -- it's only due to this popular request I've implemented 
>the ability to do 32-bit builds for 64-bit kernel.
>
I know

>  I just wonder why 
>people insisting on such a setup don't actually contribute some code to do 
>that cleanly and keep switching between hacks as they stop working one by 
>one...
>  
>
Because they hope that if they annoy you enough, you'll do it yourself ;-)


-- 
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Total Knowledge. CTO
http://www.total-knowledge.com

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-11 17:42 IP32 - issues with last CVS snapshoot Frederic TEMPORELLI - astek
2005-02-11 18:14 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-02-11 18:41   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-02-11 18:58     ` Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
2005-02-11 19:27       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-02-11 19:34         ` Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh [this message]
2005-02-11 19:50           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-02-11 19:38         ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-02-12  0:53         ` Kumba
2005-02-12  1:54   ` Ralf Baechle

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