Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

On 26/06/16 14:18, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a small update about mips64el (and mips).
> 
> On 2016-06-16 10:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> On 2016-06-16 02:12, Hector Oron wrote:
>>>>  * mips64el (NEW)
>>>>    - No DSA buildd (RT blocker)
>>>
>>> As far as I can see mips64el is using shared builds with mipsel port
>>> hardware, those machines are DSA.
>>
>> We also have the confirmation that the UTM-8 machines sent by
>> Imagination Technologies have arrived at MAN-DA and SIL about one month
>> ago. They still need to be racked and installed.
> 
> The machines at SIL have been racked and installed:
> 
> - mips-sil-01.debian.org building mips (it has an FPU)
> - mipsel-sil-01.debian.org building mips64el and then mipsel
> 
> Also we have changed mipsel-manda-02 so that it builds first mips64el
> and then mipsel.
> 
> This means we should have enough DSAed buildds for mips64el. When
> MAN-DA machines are installed we'll get more redundancy.

Great! I have updated https://release.debian.org/stretch/arch_qualify.html

>>>>    - Rebuild after import not complete (RT Blocker)
>>>
>>> Is there a list of packages that should be rebuilt?
>>
>> It is available here:
>>
>>   https://ftp-master.debian.org/users/mhy/mipsel64import.txt
>>
>> There is only a single package: db5.3. It is currently not buildable as
>> the ecj package doesn't build. The ecj java bytecode is not executed
>> correctly by gij. We have made some progress on this recently with a
>> simple reproducer not involving ecj. Matthew Fortune from Imagination
>> Technologies is currently working on that currently and has already
>> found that it is due to a sign extension issue at the JIT'd/FFI layer.
>> I therefore expect a solution a solution soon.
> 
> There has been some progress there too, a patch has been sent upstream:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2016-q2/msg00020.html

OK, thanks for the update.

Cheers,
Emilio