On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 02:35:34AM +0800, Aron Xu wrote: > 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). Aye! After the brand new arm64 porting effort, I'm keen to see this duplicated with another arch like that. There's a lot of work in setting up a port, and I think the crossbuild / porting effort is worthwhile as a GSoC project. Very cool. Any mentors lined up? > > -- > Regards, > Aron Xu > > _______________________________________________ > Soc-coordination mailing list > Soc-coordination@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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