Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] target-mips: Add n32/n64 configuration files

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 10 December 2014 at 18:53, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Mechanically add new n32/n64 configuration files copying the relevant
> preexisting ones, fixing the system emulation configuration build, that
> breaks due to the lack of the respective configuration files, for the
> `mipsn32' and `mipsn32el' targets on this occasion as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@codesourcery.com>
> ---
>  To be applied first so as not to break the build and consequently
> bisection with the configuration changes posted next.
>
>   Maciej
>
> qemu-mips-configs.diff
> Index: qemu-git-trunk/default-configs/mipsn32-softmmu.mak
> Index: qemu-git-trunk/default-configs/mipsn32el-softmmu.mak
> Index: qemu-git-trunk/default-configs/mipsn64el-linux-user.mak
> Index: qemu-git-trunk/default-configs/mipsn64el-softmmu.mak

Some of these look weird. n32 and n64 are ABIs, right? We
shouldn't have extra -softmmu configs for different ABIs,
the guest can deal with those. The MIPS config name variants
that are only ABI related should only result in new -linux-user
binaries (where we need a binary per Linux syscall ABI).

thanks
-- PMM