Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> 于2018年7月10日周二 下午2:27写道： > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:47 PM YunQiang Su <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]> 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 <[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). > > > > 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 ?
this is about big endian and little endian, not about r2 vs r6. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > best regards, > > > > > Adi Kriegisch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > YunQiang Su > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > YunQiang Su -- YunQiang Su
