Hi, folks,
Welcome to era of Trixie, and let's talk about the future of mipsel.
mipsel port has some problems as somebody may know:
1. 2G user RAM space make some packages FTBFS, especially with LTO enabled.
2. Y2038 problem, which requires almost rebootstrap.
3. The current hardwares, include MIPS P5600, Ingenic X2000, Loongson 3A4000,
are NAN2008 hardwares, and some new software supposed that NAN2008 is
always true.
[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.25/as/MIPS-NaN-Encodings.html
4. the maintenance status of big projects, like Firefox, Libreoffice
etc are not so good.
So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official ports.
(And let's keep mips64el port).
As CIP United, we do maintain an unofficial port of mipsel.
So I wish that Debian can still accept our patch to support mipsel
port (source only).
https://repo.oss.cipunited.com/debian/
Debian mips32r2el port with:
* -mnan=2008
* -mfp64
* -mmsa (not yet, will have another port)
* -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
* -D_TIME_BITS=64
Known supported hardwares:
MIPS P5600
Ingenic X2000
Loongson 3A4000
