Dear all, The mips architecture, supporting 32-bit big-endian MIPS CPUs, has been supported in Debian for more than 15 years. Due to the limited 2GB virtual address space and due to the fact this architecture is one of the last big-endian architecture Debian supports, the porting effort is increasingly difficult. On the other hand the interest for this architecture is going down, and with it the human resources available for porting is going down. Now that buster has been released, it is probably time to drop this architecture from bullseye and sid. Unless there is a sudden interest for this architecture, that is commitment from some new porters and new hardware for the build daemons, the plan is to ask for the ftpmasters to drop this architecture in about 4 weeks. Note that many recent MIPS hardware support endian switching at runtime and can therefore be supported by the mipsel or mips64el ports. This is the case for example of the Octeon CPUs. Note that this *only concerns bullseye and sid*. The mips architecture will still be available for stretch for roughly 1 more year, and for buster for roughly 3 more years. Aurelien, on behalf of the MIPS porters -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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