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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:59:39 +0000 (GMT)
From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] MIPS: TXx9: Convert SPI platform data to software
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Hi Geert,

> Took me a bit to test proper operation, as contemporary cross-toolchains
> create userland binaries that can no longer run on MIPS-II/III CPUs,
> and native development is slow and memory-constrained (dpkg OOM)...

 You mean cross-toolchains included with (some) distributions, right?

 I do hope so or otherwise I'd be very concerned.  Myself I've been using 
a self-built MIPS cross-compiler, running on POWER9, which builds MIPS I 
binaries just fine, e.g.:

$ file install/usr/sysroot/{lib/ld-2.32.9000.so,usr/bin/gdbserver}
install/usr/sysroot/lib/ld-2.32.9000.so: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, with debug_info, not stripped
install/usr/sysroot/usr/bin/gdbserver: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, MIPS, MIPS-I version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld.so.1, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, not stripped
$ install/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc -dumpversion
11.0.0
$ 

(time to upgrade perhaps).

  Maciej