On 17 February 2013 22:46, Anthony G. Basile <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: >> >> In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have >> no >> interest) because they appears understaffed. >> >> Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the >> dev- >> machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no ISO[2] available >> and >> there is no handbook[3] for it. >> >> The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install one of >> that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? >> >> An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a declared >> unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). > > I am supporting mips for the Lemote loongson2f and for the Atheros AR7161. > I'm trying to get my hands on a godson and Stuart will be sending me two > fulongs, which you can add to that list. Don't let the fact that MIPS is a > ~arch fool you. I don't think we should make it a fully supported arch > because of the number of ISA's and ABI's and endiannesses (if such a word > exists). It is impossible to test for all combos which is what stable > should mean. > > So don't even think of dropping MIPS! Just leave it ~arch and I'll give it > love.
I agree with you. MIPS is not going away and the reason we only support ~mips is like you said the vast diversity in hardware and software components. But I think nobody said to drop MIPS right? ;) > > As far as the other arches go, I'm interested in: amd64, arm, mips, ppc, > ppc64 and x86. ppc and ppc64 used to lack manpower. They appear to be in a better state now that Agostino is doing mass stabilisations for them, but I am not sure if the packages are actually tested during runtime or they are just tested for build problems. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
