Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Merge mips64 and mipsn32

[Paul Brook]

> > Make MIPS N32 be a variant of mips64, rather than a new architecture in
> > its own right.  This matches how sparc/ppc work, and makes TARGET_MIPS64
> > the right thing to check for a 64-bit mips core.
> > 
> > As side-effect of this is that linux-user/mipsn32 gets merged into
> > linux-user/mips64.  I consider this to be a feature as anything
> > differences other than the syscall numbers are probably bugs.
>...
> Note: Richard Henderson and me had been looking into code sharing among
> the MIPS ABIs for signal handling in response to a half-done Octeon
> mips64 patchset.
> 
> There's an unfinished RFC of mine from December or so, feel free to pick
> that up or to come up with a better idea!

Yeah, I found those and have a couple of other patches I need to reconcile and 
push out.  I haven't looked at the signal handling bits.

Paul