Some MIPS status goodies.

[Ralf Baechle]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:18:01AM -1000, juli mallett wrote:

> Right now I gotta say that Elf64-requiring systems are out.  I can't
> get the toolchain to behave enough.  Once I can get loader going, I
> can probably deal with the pain a lot more easily, because we can
> just default to Elf64 and make Elf32 a second-class citizen.

64-bit ELF requires very recent GNU tools and even in those it cannot
be considered of prime quality.

64-bit code is so much larger that it often delivers just half the
performance of 32-bit code.

  Ralf