> > Is there any consensus about this ? 
> 
> It was removed quite a while ago on the [nisimura-pmax-wscons]
> branch, and made obsolete on the main tree by Castor's work.
> My goal was only to make the pmax part of the [nisimura] branch
> work with the mainline arch/mips sources. The conflict had to
> be resolved in one or the other way, so I've continued into this
> direction instead of taking back changes done on the branch.

Hmm.

> > I think it is better to leave regdef.h separate from asm.h, to keep
> > assembler source level compatibility of mips platforms.
> 
> Maybe - otoh the different flavours of asm.h macros might
> be a more serious problem.

Yes.
Both asm.h and regdef.h are userland visible headers, and we should
not remove or change the API without strong reason, IMHO.

> Perhaps Tohru / Castor can comment on this?

Why are these changed ?
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soda