Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-07 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:09:40AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 13:54 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > > I am late to the party but as i mentioned a couple times on debian-mips > > already i'd like to keep mipsel as a debian-port - and i'd like to > > revert away from mips32r2

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-07 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:53:02AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > From what I have understood from YunQiang plans, it is currently not > planned to import mipsel on debian-ports. Are you volunteering for > maintaining such a port? I am not interested in mips32r2 as i have no hardware for

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-07 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2023-08-06 13:54, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > Hi, folks, > > > > Welcome to era of Trixie, and let's talk about the future of mipsel. > > > So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official > >

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 13:54 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > I am late to the party but as i mentioned a couple times on debian-mips > already i'd like to keep mipsel as a debian-port - and i'd like to > revert away from mips32r2 back to mips2/mips3 - That change (with > stretch) basically dropped

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-06 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Welcome to era of Trixie, and let's talk about the future of mipsel. > So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official ports. > (And let's keep mips64el port). I am late to the party but

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-08-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > On 2023-07-24 23:07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 08:36:53PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: > > > On Sun, 23, Jul, 2023 at 08:36:15PM +0200, Paul Gevers spoke thus.. > > > > Speaking as a member of the Release

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-26 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, On 2023-07-24 23:07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 08:36:53PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: > > On Sun, 23, Jul, 2023 at 08:36:15PM +0200, Paul Gevers spoke thus.. > > > Speaking as a member of the Release Team, but without having consulted > > > with > > > the others, I think

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-24 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 08:36:53PM +0100, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Sun, 23, Jul, 2023 at 08:36:15PM +0200, Paul Gevers spoke thus.. > > Speaking as a member of the Release Team, but without having consulted with > > the others, I think we're OK with the removal. > > > > I have not been involved in

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Mark Hymers
On Sun, 23, Jul, 2023 at 08:36:15PM +0200, Paul Gevers spoke thus.. > Speaking as a member of the Release Team, but without having consulted with > the others, I think we're OK with the removal. > > I have not been involved in removal of an architecture before, I think it's > the Release Team

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 23-07-2023 17:51, Mark Hymers wrote: On Tue, 18, Jul, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su spoke thus.. So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official ports. (And let's keep mips64el port). Is there consensus on this point? If so, should we start making

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-23 Thread Mark Hymers
On Tue, 18, Jul, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su spoke thus.. > So I consider to suggest drop mipsel support from the list of official ports. > (And let's keep mips64el port). Is there consensus on this point? If so, should we start making arrangements to remove mipsel from the archive?

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-19 Thread YunQiang Su
Aurelien Jarno 于2023年7月19日周三 14:43写道: > > On 2023-07-19 11:23, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > > 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

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-19 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2023-07-19 11:23, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > 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/

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-18 Thread YunQiang Su
Paul Wise 于2023年7月19日周三 11:23写道: > > On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > 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/ >

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > 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/ The closest Debian has to source-only ports are

Re: The future of mipsel port

2023-07-18 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:45:51PM +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > Known supported hardwares: > MIPS P5600 > Ingenic X2000 > Loongson 3A4000 This sounds reasonable, but do you have a list of hardware currently supported by the mipsel port that would be left unsupported by this?

The future of mipsel port

2023-07-17 Thread YunQiang Su
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