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15 years ago

Implementation of -fPIC (large mode) for Nios 'toolchain-mmu'

Hi, Unfortunately, it seems that MontaVista guys did not implement the Nios tool-chains to allow the GOT size more than 32Kbytes. So I tried to make those. The diff-files are attached below. No...
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15 years ago

Hi,

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It would be awesome if you could post your patches to the Nios II Linux development mailing list where the developers could review them and maybe commit them.

Nios2-dev mailing list

Nios2-dev@sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw

http://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nios2-dev

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Thank you for your suggestion. But I'm hesitating to join there, because the discussions are dull a little bit and I can't understand the intention and direction of maintainers. Of course, also I can't understand why Altera throws these thing all to volunteers and does nothing. Now it seems that they are planning to put ARM and MIPS CPU into their FPGA, but I can't believe their business goes well.

Kazu