[added CC to debian-mips, please don't shoot me for cross-posting] >>>>> "Graham" == Graham Whaley <graham.whaley@gmail.com> writes: > I need to update you on the state of Debian support commitment within > Imagination, particularly in light of the plight of MIPS support for > jessie. > Having become aware of this situation, I am working internally to > accelerate Imaginations existing Debian support group plans. This will > cover both engineering resource and hardware availability. It will > take a few days for us to work this through, and as soon as I have > some news I will post to this list. Hi Graham, nice to hear that there is somebody still interested in Debian-mips. Already started thinking I'd end up with a non-supported software for my MIPS hardware in the long-run. [..] > For those of you who wish to do some mips/mipsel work or testing > (thanks :-), but are short of hardware, I'll see what I can do there > as well. Let me know if you are interested Given the seemingly dormant interest in Debian MIPS I'll see whether I can allocate more time myself to help with porting and fixing. I'm already eying Loongson-3A based hardware (heard that Lemote has Mini-ITX boards available) to replace/augment my Fuloong 6004 system. For MIPS-enthusiasts: tekmote is currently selling quadcore MIPS64 notebooks for <600 EUR: http://www.tekmote.nl/epages/61504599.sf/nl_NL/?ObjectPath=/Shops/61504599/Products/CFL-008 IMO without a Debian MIPS64 port, Debian won't be viable for high end MIPS equipment before soon, and is going to loose a lot of interested developers. cheers, David -- GnuPG public key: http://dvdkhlng.users.sourceforge.net/dk2.gpg Fingerprint: B63B 6AF2 4EEB F033 46F7 7F1D 935E 6F08 E457 205F
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