Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

Aron Xu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general,gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
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On Friday, November 29, 2013, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> Some precision about the MIPS machines:
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> >  * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old
> or has known defects:

>    - mips octeon is unstable
>
> Better me more precise there, Octeon machines in general are very
> stable. That said out of the three machines we have in Debian, two are
> unstable, the other one is very stable. We never really understood why,
> we only have remarked they have different CPU revision number.
>
> >    - mipsel loongson have CPU bugs
>
> I see on http://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html that it
> concerns the "NOP implementation error" from Loongson 2F. Debian is
> using Loongson 2E for buildds and porters machines, which are not
> affected by this issue.
>
>
I've got anther 3A board today, which is an official product of Loongson,
Inc. that can be purchased on the market. We have made
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