Re: The future of mipsel port
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> 于2023年7月19日周三 14:43写道：
>
> On 2023-07-19 11:23, Paul Wise wrote:
> > On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 12:45 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote:
> >
> > > As CIP United, we do maintain an unofficial port of mipsel.
> > > So I wish that Debian can still accept our patch to support mipsel
> > > port (source only).
> > > https://repo.oss.cipunited.com/debian/
> >
> > The closest Debian has to source-only ports are the ones that are
> > supported in rebootstrap but not on debian-ports. You could also
> > migrate mipsel to debian-ports instead of dropping it entirely.
>
> Please note that maintaining a port in debian-ports in good state
> requires more work than an official port. Therefore this should only be
> done if there are people actually going to do the work, otherwise it's
> just a waste of time and resources.
>
> > https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap
> > https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New
> >
> > > (And let's keep mips64el port).
> >
> > DSA would appreciate it if you could publicly document your plans for
> > trixie mips64el hardware qualification on the wiki, as riscv64 did:
>
> Yes. Please also clarify how do you plan to handle the NaN2008 issue for
> mips64el. Some of the newer buildds have NaN2008 FPU, while the port and
> the toolchain are configured for the old MIPS NaN. This causes some
> issues in some packages, a lot of headaches to packages maintainers and
> upstream that have to debug the issues, and eventually testsuites being
> fully or partially disabled.
>
I am working on getting more NaN1985 hardware for Debian.
> Regards
> Aurelien
>
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