Re: The future of mipsel port
On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 10:09:40AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 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,
>...
No, that's not required.
We've already had baseline lowering in ports in the past (and could do
that even for a release architecture) by changing the default in gcc
and then binNMUing all packages.
> bye,
> pabs
cu
Adrian
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