Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:47 PM YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org> 于2018年7月9日周一 下午6:31写道：
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Adi Kriegisch <adi@cg.tuwien.ac.at> 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道：
> > > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at
> > > > > the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about
> > > > > dropping mips32eb support now.
> > > > [...]
> > > > > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port.
> > > > > If you are using it, please tell us.
> > > > I am using mips32eb a lot on wifi routers (self-compiled kernel with
> > > > rootfs on a usb stick). There are some people here at a community
> > > > wireless network that do use such setups on their rooftops as well.
> > > >
> > >
> > > What is the advantage of eb than el? better performance?
> > > I guess most of CPUs support both eb and el.
> > >
> > > > Please let me know if there is anything I could do to help avoiding the
> > > > drop.
> > > >
> > >
> > > We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s,
> > > which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU.
> > > So the performance and stability are bad.
> >
> > Just for reference why is mips (mips32eb) not build from an mips64el
> > machine (with FPU) ? All i386 (AFAIK) packages are build from amd64
> > these days (same is true for ppc32 on ppc64).
>
> mipsel packages do build on mips64el machines,
> while mips aka mips32eb cannot.

Sorry to insist, but I thought mips & mipsel in Debian were both
MIPS32r2. So what makes mips32eb so special for MIPS64r6 ?

> >
> > > We also need some more manpower to fix the FTBFS in future.
> >
> > Is this the correct page to look at the FTBFS+mips(32eb):
> >
> > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=mips&user=debian-mips%40lists.debian.org
> >
>
> Yes. It is.
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> >
> >
> > > > best regards,
> > > >         Adi Kriegisch
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > YunQiang Su
> > >
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> --
> YunQiang Su