n64/n32 - build support patches

[Jayachandran C.]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 09:44:26AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <98a59be81003050823r57b5dc4alfc58018ffbb74731 at mail.gmail.com>
>             "C. Jayachandran" <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> writes:
> : On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:49 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> : > CJ,
> : >
> : > Thanks for all the work in this area.  I know that Julie Mallett is
> : > also working in this area, and I've done some work to clean up the
> : > build system.  I'm afraid that we now have some conflicts between the
> : > different efforts, and that it may take a little to resolve the
> : > conflicts.
> : 
> : This is okay, I can rebase the patch when the other efforts are in,
> : (or can merge other efforts after this goes in).  I need a base on
> : which to start work on n64/n32 and I'm making my changes available as
> : it may be useful for others working in the same area.
> 
> Excellent.  And your patches often fill in holes that others haven't
> gotten to yet.  I think between everybody working in this area, we'll
> have a really good solution to the problem.
> 
> BTW, have you given any thought to multilib yet? :)

Not yet :) But I guess the tool-chain part will be easier. We will need to
provide binary support for o32/n32 on 64 bit kernels.

I'm looking at Juli's changes for n32 to see if I can get XLR boot with
those.

JC.