Re: The future of mipsel port

Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Aug 2023 12:12:17 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Organization	rfc822 - pure communication
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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:53:02AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> From what I have understood from  YunQiang plans, it is currently not
> planned to import mipsel on debian-ports. Are you volunteering for
> maintaining such a port?

I am not interested in mips32r2 as i have no hardware for that. So
everything debian-mipsel stretch++ is unusable.

> > revert away from mips32r2 back to mips2/mips3 - That change (with
> > stretch) basically dropped all of the supported platforms formerly
> > supported without a good reason - mips32r2 cpus would have been 
> 
> The reason is that many upstream code do not support mips2 anymore,
> especially for JIT languages or languages with their own code generator.
> Be prepared for a lot of upstream work.

I have already started with that on stretch - have 90% build - the issue
is that a lot of debian patches unconditionally enabled/switched to
mips32r2

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                     [email protected]
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