Hi,

...on Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Miles Nordin wrote:

 > >>>>> "ab" == Alexander Bochmann <ab@lists.gxis.de> writes:
 >     ab> Huh... Nevertheless the kernel's Makefile.hpcmips.inc has
 >     ab> CFLAGS+=-mips2?
 > fine, try it if you don't believe me.  Now that we have build.sh that
 > patch I posted or a corrected one similar to it should work really
 > well.

I didn't mean to say that I built binaries with -mips2, 
but that I was wondering about the -current (as of a week 
ago or so) hpcmips kernel makefile including the flag 
despite the problems you mentioned.

 > build the userland.  If I had to guess I'd say maybe it is because
 > there's no floating point in the kernel, but please don't latch onto
 > that explanation because I really have no idea.

Sounds plausible: I once compiled a kernel mit -mcpu=vr4100, 
which worked just fine, although gcc seems to implicitly 
set -mhard-float with that option. Don't try it on userland 
binaries on the Z50 :)

(By the way, with the 1.6S kernel I built a few days ago, 
the hangs on heavy network i/o accompanied by "/netbsd: ne0: 
NIC memory corrupt - invalid packet length 56576" messages 
went completely away - the system is currently building 
a distribution with sources and target dirs on nfs with 
no problems whatsoever.)

Alex.