Hi Michal,

  I have to wonder why this problem has not arisen before.  The config.bfd file is obviously set up to select the N32 ABI as the default for MIPS64 Linux, so why has no-one complained before ?

  The patch itself is fine, but please could you tell me why this needs to be fixed for Fedora only, rather than also fixing the mainstream FSF binutils so that the change applies to all MIPS Linux distributions ?

Cheers
  Nick

Hi Nick,

that is a right question and honestly I have no good answer to that. There are not many distributions that support MIPS. In fact the only one that claims to support MIPS and I was actually able to make it work is Debian. Their binutils package carries a downstream patch similar to mine but a little different approach, they add mips64*-linux-gnuabi64 triplet that uses n64 and n32 is used with mips64*-linux. This has been proposed [1].

We can propose a (better?) patch upstream and wait for feedback if you think this is the right thing to do.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2014-06/msg00014.html

Hi Michal,

> We can propose a (better?) patch upstream and wait for feedback if you think
> this is the right thing to do.

I really do.  I am not a MIPS expert, and definitely not a MIPS kernel expert, so I would feel a lot better if more people had a chance to see your patch and comment on it if they feel so motivated.

If the patch receives acceptance upstream then I will be happy to apply it to the Fedora sources as well.

Cheers
  Nick

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