mips and proprietary instructions

[Will Newton]

On 3/25/07, JB <general at itpsg.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the response...
>
> The kernel is not the problem.  The processor will execute them if and

Read what I said again. It is possible to build a kernel that makes a
Lexra core appear to a userspace app like a 100% MIPS core.

> when encountered.  The compiler already does not emit them.  It is the
> memcpy.S code distributed in any version of uClibc > 0.9.26 that has
> them already in assembly form.  I would be rewriting the mips assembly
> and the last mips assembly I worked on was many many years ago.  I would
> have thought the open source community would have opposed the
> proprietary instructions and worked to avoid them in the first place...
> Has no one dealt with this?  I searched on google for quite a while and
> was unable to find any kind of existing solution out there.

Disable arch specific string functions in menuconfig?