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[PATCH] MIPS: Enable NewABI testing for all Linux targets

Richard Sandiford rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Sun Aug 12 18:34:00 GMT 2012 
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>
>> >> Not including the targets in the BFD64 block at the time that the
>> >> extra vectors were added was probably an oversight.
>> >
>> >  I've been wondering if these extra vectors were added by mistake instead, 
>> > like slipped through in a larger commit unnoticed.  I'll post a fix to the 
>> > BFD64 block separately.
>> 
>> The 64-bit ones?  No, Debian wanted to allow 32-bit *-linux-gnu targets
>> that provice all three ABIs, while still defaulting to o32.  The associated
>> GCC configure option is --enable-targets=all.  (Confusingly different from
>> the binutils meaning, but there you go.  That choice of name wasn't a MIPS
>> invention.)
>
>  OK, thanks for this background information.  Here's the change I 
> promised, no regressions on the 23 MIPS targets.  OK to apply?

Yes.
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