Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

YunQiang Su <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
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Paul Wise <[email protected]> 于2018年7月7日周六 下午11:20写道:
>
> On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 22:54 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
>
> > use eb in a chroot env of openwrt etc env is a use case.
>
> In my case it was the default firmware with help of this:
>
> https://github.com/mattimustang/optus-sagemcom-fast-3864-hacks
>
> > What CPU is your router? mips r2 is a quite old ISA standard,
> > they are published in 2002, why your router didn't support it?
>
> The router is a (GPL violating) SAGEMCOM F@ST3864V2 with Broadcom SoC
> BCM963268 and CPU BMIPS4350 V8.0. This is the default router shipped by
> my ISP, I now have two of them and the latest one I recieved new this
> year. There are some other devices out there with the same SoC/CPU too:
>
> https://wikidevi.com/w/index.php?search=BMIPS4350&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=Search
> https://wikidevi.com/w/index.php?search=BCM963268&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=1

Since they are quite new, I except they support mips r2.
Maybe the problem is due to lack of FPU?

>
> > yes, Loongson 2f is only support MIPS II/III.
> > I have no idea if it is valuable to downgrade mipsel to MIPS II,
> > at the same time, Loongson 2f has some other bugs, which will ask for
> > gcc/glibc patch, which will slow down the binary on other CPUs.
>
> I guess that is not a good idea then.
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



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