Subject: Re: Compiling -current on pmax
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/24/1998 20:47:32
> The NetBSD/mips BFD targets are all screwey.  They should be:
>
>        mipseb-unknown-netbsd*
>        mipsel-unknown-netbsd*
>
> The appropriate default should be selected based on hw.byteorder at build
> time, but both targets should always be included.

This is very welcome to cope with bi-endianness of MIPS processor.  As
a loosely coupled topic with above, some of Japanese developers once
discussed and dreamed of having /emul/mipseb and /emul/mipsel to
execute opposite endian binaries in user-lands. (R4000 could do it if
emul pkg was cool enough). 

Tohru Nishimura
Nara Institute of Science and Technology