On Friday, November 29, 2013, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Some precision about the MIPS machines: > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old > or has known defects:
> - mips octeon is unstable > > Better me more precise there, Octeon machines in general are very > stable. That said out of the three machines we have in Debian, two are > unstable, the other one is very stable. We never really understood why, > we only have remarked they have different CPU revision number. > > > - mipsel loongson have CPU bugs > > I see on http://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html that it > concerns the "NOP implementation error" from Loongson 2F. Debian is > using Loongson 2E for buildds and porters machines, which are not > affected by this issue. > > I've got anther 3A board today, which is an official product of Loongson, Inc. that can be purchased on the market. We have made
