On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su <[email protected]> wrote: > > Adi Kriegisch <[email protected]> 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). > 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 > > best regards, > > Adi Kriegisch > > > > > -- > YunQiang Su >
