This makes our naming scheme more closely match other systems and the
expectations of much third-party software. MIPS builds which are little-endian
should require and exhibit no changes. Big-endian TARGET_ARCHes must be
changed:
From: To:
mipseb mips
mipsn32eb mipsn32
mips64eb mips64
An entry has been added to UPDATING and some foot-shooting protection (complete
with warnings which should become errors in the near future) to the top-level
base system Makefile.
required for the ABI the kernel is being built for.
XXX This is implemented in a kind-of nasty way that involves including source
files, but it's still an improvement.
o) Retire ISA_* options since they're unused and were always wrong.
mipsel' or 'machine mips mipseb' into the config file (with a few 64's
tossed in for good measure). This will let us build the proper
kernels with different worlds as part of make universe.
physical addresses.
o) Set a local maxmem in sb_machdep.c to avoid trying to use pages over 2^64
under 32-bit ABIs. Our pmap needs corrected to use vm_paddr_t consistently,
then we can make vm_paddr_t 64-bit under 32-bit ABIs and add code in pmap
to limit phys_avail by the maximum PFN that a 32-bit PTE can hold.
that turned out to be unrelated, and the rest was, as pointed out by Neel,
just wrong-headed.
o) Tweak mem.c to fix use of /dev/kmem for direct-mapped addresses.
this in the Sibyte PCI hostbridge driver instead.
The nexus driver sees resource allocation requests for memory and irq
resources only. These are legitimate resources on all MIPS platforms.
Suggested by: imp
the 'debugging' section of any HEAD kernel and enable for the mainstream
ones, excluding the embedded architectures.
It may, of course, enabled on a case-by-case basis.
Sponsored by: Sandvine Incorporated
Requested by: emaste
Discussed with: kib
