On Sun, 26 Jul 1998 12:58:00 -0700 
 Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

 > Nope.  There are just as many problems with that, too.
 > 
 > Whatever we do we need a name that means ``is this a MIPS cpu of any
 > flavour'', for Makefile tests and CPP tests where we cant get by with
 > wildcarding.  On mips, that means six choices:
 > 		el vs be
 > 		o32, n32, lp64	models

It's just plain STUPID to say that we'll try and do every MIPS ABI
convention in NetBSD.  We should stick with ILP32 "mipsel" and "mipseb"
and maybe the LP64 "mipsel64" and "mipseb64" on those systems where it
makes sense.

Adding "find-grained" checking via strings in the kernel is just silly,
is incorrect (see my previous example), and overly complex.

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