On 17/04/2022 18.33, WANG Xuerui wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A lot have happened since my last progress update regarding the > Gentoo/LoongArch port in January; among other things, I'm a Gentoo developer > now, so I got to edit the project page and announce it myself. :-) > > The project page is at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:LoongArch, where > I have collected some useful information for LoongArch development. > > > ## Trying out > > LoongArch hardware is probably hard to get outside of China, but usable QEMU > linux-user emulation is available via patched qemu package in the > loongson-overlay [1], so you can set up binfmt_misc and try out the stages > just like with any other chroot. Freshly built stages can be downloaded from > several mirrors (all hosted in China though), you can find the links on the > project page. > > > ## State of various fundamental packages > > Both binutils and gcc have the LoongArch support upstreamed, although > binutils still needs some patching for now, for spec conformance. So we're > basically only waiting for linux and glibc. The Linux port is likely 5.19 > material [2], and glibc should follow that; this means we're likely starting > with Linux 5.19, binutils 2.38 (patched), gcc 12.1.0 and glibc 2.36. > > > ## Roadmap update > > Now that I have verified everything with stage builds and installation on > real Loongson 3A5000 hardware, I plan to first upstream the profiles and > toolchain bits to ::gentoo. After that, I'll handle the keywording and > porting/testing of packages for loong, just like any other arch; upstreaming > the various patches one by one, while doing all these. > > As with all other arches, the project would need an email alias; because it's > ARCH=loong, the alias should look like loong@g.o. An IRC channel would be nice > but I doubt how many people would converse there -- we could probably do > without one for now. > > > I'll happily help if you are interested in this niche architecture; feel free > to reach out via mail or IRC.
Well, I will gladly help with keywording and testing of packages if I could have access to some devbox (as with all arch teams I'm on). I know this is a *very* future talk, but just know that if we have a devbox Gentoo developers can ssh into, quite fastly we join to help :) For now let me just send you good luck - maintaining arches is quite fun and fulfilling :) > > [1]: https://github.com/xen0n/loongson-overlay > [2]: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-arch/msg76936.html > > -- > WANG Xuerui > xe...@gentoo.org > Gentoo Linux developer > PGP: 7C52 19E3 26A0 7311 3EA3 8806 C01F 7214 BC93 1414 > -- Arthur Zamarin arthur...@gentoo.org Gentoo Linux developer (Python, GURU, Arch Teams)
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