On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Graham Whaley <graham.wha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 October 2013 17:22, YunQiang Su <wzss...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After more than half of a year's hard work, we have the mips64el port >> almost done. >> Now we have more than 7600 packages build successfully. >> The current build status can be found in http://vip.moonux.org/attempted/ > > > Hey! - well done. That's quite some effort! > >> >> Now I get a new board and give it 18GiB DDR3 memory and 1TB hardisk. >> Most important is that it is running a Debian Unstable, MIPS64EL. > > > Nice. Can I ask which board that is? I have some boards reserved for me in > Loongson that I am highly likely to purchase, and suspect (but would like to > confirm) that they are the same board that you are using. I will also check > on any further availability. If I can I will donate one/some of these for > Debian as well. I prefer that you don't purchase this model of board: I can even not use the power button of chassis. Maybe that you can purchase a newer model. If IPMI is available, it will be much better. > >> >> Anyone has need to port package(s) can apply a account. >> Please post me your ssh public key signed by a trust-able PGP key. >> >> I also working on make a rootfs to make it easy to install this port. >> >> Here we still have 2 problems: >> 1. I believe that it is time of use to talk about how to make this >> port to debian-ports.org. >> Anyone can help us? > > One of the issues will be hardware availability. If I can source the above > boards (which it looks like I can), then I can help with that. Also, we are > trying out the Loongson 2F mini-PC's, expanding their RAM to their maximum > (which may only be 1Gbyte, but we hope 2Gbyte), and adding SSD's. If that > works out then they are cheaper, available, and we can relatively easily > build a small farm of those for (donated to) Debian I hope. Great news. Without DMA, my current WD blue disk has a speed about 50MB/s. > >> >> 2. Which ISA to be used for this port when it is in debian-ports. >> Now we use mips64r2 with tune loongson3a. >> Should we downgrade ISA requirement to mips3 or mips64? >> > > Much though I would love to say go with MIPS64R2, I suspect for the main > debian-ports.org upload that is not the best single choice. The Loongson 2F > cores are MIPSIII I believe, as are some other platforms. I have a suspicion > that some of the Broadcom chips for instance are MIPS32R1. > I would suggest that we go with MIPSIII for the first mips64le upload, and > then we can work on MIPS32R2 for the 'unofficial ports' to begin with. What > do you think ? It is also my opinion. Use MIPSIII can make more people use it, and we can work with some of other unofficial ports. > >> >> Thanks for all of the people helped me to make this project be realized: >> Eleanor Chen, Aron Xu, Anthony Fok, Fuxin Zhang from Lemote and lots >> of other people. >> > > You have my thanks as well :-) > >> >> -- >> YunQiang Su >> > Graham > >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-requ...@lists.debian.org >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/CAKcpw6WvRdF-9O7HKZSr_Vr_ZugF4W0VbTsd=cx-3=qawpz...@mail.gmail.com >> >
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