Re: Bootstrapping a Mips64el chroot

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 10:04 AM, David Kuehling <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Aron" == Aron Xu <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Actually the packages on mips64el.debian.net is a bit dated at the
>> moment, and we are preparing a push to make it up-to-date.
>
>>> Unfortunately this requires a MIPS64 capable CPU, i.e. Loongson3A
>>> will work, but Loongson2F not.  Hopefully the porters eventually
>>> recompile their repository for MIPSIII.  I don't think that
>>> MIPS64-specific instructions add much of a benefit anyways.
>
>> The plan is that we are very probably switch to mips3 for the one
>> submit to debian-ports.org, and keep another repository for mips64r2
>> capable hardware.
>
> I'm very happy to hear that the mips64el port is progressing.
>
> Moving the port to debian-ports.org will have the added benefit of
> mips64el being added to snapshot.debian.org.  In case a transition
> temporarily breaks dependencies, making 'debootstrap' impossible, users
> will then still be able to point debootstrap to an older snapshot.
>
> About the separate mips64r2 repository: I'd think twice about going to
> such efforts.  The packages that are actually performance relevant may
> already do run-time CPU detection and have separate code paths depending
> on CPU (like fftw) or may install multiple dynamic library versions
> where the dynamic linker (or kernel?) selects the best one depending on
> CPU (e.g. on wheezy mipsel, there is a -loongson2f package for libc
> [1]).
>
> Just tuning the MIPSIII port in that regards may be easier than
> maintaingint a mips64r2 port.
>
> cheers,
>
> David
>
> [1] https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libc6-loongson2f
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Hi,

Good news is that http://mips64el.debian.net/debian is now up-to-date,
so that you can upgrade the system as well as installing new packages,
:)


Thanks,
Aron