Re: mips64el in testing

On Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 4:30:03 PM UTC-8, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The port itself is in a good shape, that said we are still lacking DSAed
> build daemons (and thus autosigning). It is built mostly on 4 machines,
> 3 hosted in China by Aron Xu and 1 hosted in Germany by Andi Barth. In
> addition the mipsel build daemons also build mips64el packages as the
> lowest priority. The porterbox etler.d.o has both mipsel and mips64el
> chroots. We are waiting for Octeon III hardware sponsored by Imagination
> Technologies that will be used for the 3 MIPS ports (they are able to
> boot on both endianness). That is the last blocker on our side and that
> is why we haven't requested to get mips64el into testing yet.

What is the current status of getting mips64el into stretch? As a
relative Debian newbie, I can't tell from
https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html exactly what's
missing.

I may be able to scare up a couple of Cavium Octeon II boards, if that
would help.

--Ed