Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mips-user socket-related syscall support

[Thiemo Seufer]

Raphaël Rigo wrote:
> Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is it really needed to duplicate socket.h ? What are the differences for
> > mips ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Fabrice.
> > 
> Hi,
> almost all socket related constants are different on MIPS. I thought it would 
> be
>  cleaner to define all constants for each target, so that if we add support 
> for
>  another platform with different constants, it will be easy.

Historically Linux/MIPS followed MIPS Inc.'s RiscOS numbering scheme,
this explains most of the seemingly deliberate deviations from i386.


Thiemo