Re: COMPAT_IRIX, N32, mmap for /dev/zero.

Simon Burge <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:50:20 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips
Organization	Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Girish,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:50:42AM -0700, GIRISH V. GULAWANI wrote:

> After adding COMPAT_IRIX option to the kernel I am
> able to bring up the shell "sh" of IRIX 6.3, which I
> suppose is N32 type.

N32 will not work with NetBSD at all; with the N32 ABI "long long"s
use a single 64 bit register.  Currently we only support O32 under
COMPAT_IRIX.

I almost wonder if we shouldn't have separate

	COMPAT_IRIX_O32
	COMPAT_IRIX_N32
	COMPAT_IRIX_N64

options...

Simon.
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