Hi all…
A little note regarding the usage of the latest MIPS-I stages on Fuloong 2E… I found I had a hard-lock compiling some applications which can be possibly traced back to an issue regarding the NOP instruction on the Loongson CPU. I understood it to only affect 2F-series systems, and also assumed latest binutils had the patch, it seems I was wrong on both those fronts.
A workaround is described on Lemote’s site… compile the fix-nop.c then use it to patch up ld and as… then builds should go smoothly. Now that I know about this issue, I can use the faster Loongson2E machines to build the stages, which means I’ll address the other issues I’ve found and roll out a new set of stages, rather than waiting for the slow Qube2 to chug its way through the build queue.
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