Porting Slackware LoongArch process shared(stage1-4)
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Porting Slackware LoongArch process shared(stage1-4)
# Slackware/LoongArch port
Hi everyone,
I'm your average Slackware user ,and just decided to start porting Slackware to LoongArch.
As this is a new architecture,I'm posting this to announce my intent and gather advice on how to best push this.
I'll first give some background material to help people gain context, then
describe my porting plan. This is going to be a bit long; apologizes for that.
## A bit of introduction on the LoongArch
LoongArch is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V. There are
currently 3 variants: a reduced 32-bit version (LA32R), a standard 32-bit
version (LA32S) and a 64-bit version (LA64).
I'm planning to take ARCH=loongarch for the port; and support the LP64 ABI
first. I'd like to support both LP64 and ILP32 ABIs, but that's not a
priority.
But “ARCH=loongarch” a bit long,I'm open to suggestions.
And that's about all; the message is getting long! Your opinions are welcome,
and thanks again for following along.
Since we get "x86_64" on x86 CPUs, how about "LA64" or even "LA_64" ?
At first I considered using "la64 (LA64)", but "la64" and "ia64 (IA64)" are so similar that it's easy to mistake them, This is also the reason why I didn't choose LA64 later
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