This was a project in GSoC 2009, however the project wasn't completed due to various reasons. I'm raising it here again because there are interests of doing it around us again.
Original description from the GSoC2009 project: This project first focuses on creating a new MIPS N32 ABI port for Debian. Different from O32 and N64, N32 is an address model which has most 64-bit capabilities but using 32-bit data structures to save space and process time. A second focus will be given on making such a “mipsn32el” arch fully optimized for the Loongson 2F CPU which gains more and more popularity in subnotebooks/netbooks in many countries. Multiarch support is almost landed in Debian, and Multiarch cross build is on its way, so we are in a position to make use of such technology during bootstrap (still not working that well, though) and daily use. A user can run an n64 kernel + mixed n32/n64 userland, so that he/she can take advantage of the performance and large memory as needed (like i386/amd64 in some degree). -- Regards, Aron Xu _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
