Hello,

Yesterday, I sucessfully installed NetBSD on an Indy with a R5000 
processor. I was also able to recompile the kernel including only the 
things that I need and everything was working fine.

But I have noticed that the kernel is being compiled for the MIPS I 
instruction set with is suboptimal and I would like to know if there is 
any way to use all the possibilities of the R5000.

Well, actually I have been trying adding the line:

makeoptions CFLAGS="-mr5000 -mips4 -long32 -Wa,-m5000,-mips4"

but as expected, it makes the kernel crash on startup.


I have also tried:

makeoptions CFLAGS="-mr5000, -Wa,m5000"

that seems to work.


so, is there any better set of options to use?


bye,

   - Salva