On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 13:54 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > I am late to the party but as i mentioned a couple times on debian-mips > already i'd like to keep mipsel as a debian-port - and i'd like to > revert away from mips32r2 back to mips2/mips3 - That change (with > stretch) basically dropped all of the supported platforms formerly > supported without a good reason - mips32r2 cpus would have been > able to run mips2 code. The now supported platforms are > basically non existent or available for the normal user. That sounds like a new port would be needed, some docs: https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New > So with that change we basically killed 90% of the Debian/mipsel > users/community e.g. Siemens RM series, Cobalt Cube/RAQ, Decstation R4k > and the like which are now all stuck with pre-Stretch Debian Releases. The baseline bump of the mips port similarly lost MIPSr1 based routers, some of which could run Debian in a chroot. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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