Antti Kantee wrote: > On Fri Jan 28 2011 at 18:05:50 +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, was there any thought is adding this to evbmips > > > instead of getting its own top-level arch subdir? > > > > emips already has native bootloader and src/distrib files, > > so it's enough reason to have own port dir.
Fair enough here, this isn't something that evb* handles well. One day I'd like to move sbmips under evbmips but sbmips/stand is the biggest part of work there. > additionally, userland is built with MKSOFTFLOAT=yes Was softfloat vs kernel emulation ever benchmarked? It's been many years since I looked at this but my (very vague) recollection was that there was no real difference and there are then the benefits of sharing binaries with other MIPS ports. > plus, what was said about a research platform, > with implications for teaching too. This is the only point you raise that I don't understand. How does its location in the source tree effect its use as a research platform? Cheers, Simon.