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authorStafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>2021-10-20 06:55:18 +0900
committerStafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>2022-01-05 06:40:06 +0900
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Documentation for OpenRISC port
OpenRISC architecture specification:

 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openrisc/doc/master/openrisc-arch-1.3-rev1.pdf

Currently the port as of the 2022-01-03 rebasing there are no known
architecture specific test failures.

Writing credits for the port are:

 Stafford Horne  <shorne@gmail.com>
 Christian Svensson  <blue@cmd.nu>

Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -106,6 +106,15 @@ Major new features:
   can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
   address.
 
+* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added.  This port requires
+  as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4.  Currently only soft-float
+  ABI is supported:
+
+    - or1k-linux-gnu
+
+  The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
+  64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support