Re: [PATCH] Ensure that MIPS target code is compiled for the O32 ABI.

From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ensure that MIPS target code is compiled for the O32 ABI.
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:26:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DF85C70E-9FB5-42E0-BBAE-4316255C28CE@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1xafqci.fsf@netris.org>

Отправлено с iPhone

> 22 сент. 2015 г., в 17:03, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> написал(а):
> 
> Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> writes:
>> Did you also test cross-compile
> 
> No.  My Yeeloong 8101B (based on the Loongson 2F processor) is my
> (relatively) high security machine, and I prefer to avoid running any
> code on it that was not built natively on it from source code.  That's
> also the reason I have not yet tried booting GRUB compiled with clang: I
> have not yet compiled clang on my Yeeloong, as it would take a long time
> to do so.
> 
> I tested building grub with clang on a different machine (the Lemote
> Yeeloong 8133 laptop based on the Loongson 3A), but cannot run it there
> because that machine is not supported by GRUB afaict.
> 
>> (building for BE MIPS in your case)?
> 
> The Loongson 2F does not support big-endian mode.
> 

I do not mean building for your system, but testing building for BE MIPS on native MIPS toolkit. 

>     Thanks,
>       Mark