Am 26.04.21 um 10:37 schrieb Sijie Bu via arch-general:
> Hello,
>
> Not sure if I am posting it to the right place, but this seems to be the
> mailing list to ask. I tried to send it to arch-dev-public list but was
> redirected by the system to this list.
I think the arch-ports [1] is the place you're looking for.
Regards,
Uwe
[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-ports
> I am about to start working as an intern at CIP United, a company focusing on
> MIPS chips, and I will be bootstrapping Arch Linux onto the MIPS64r6
> architecture, in a fashion similar to Arch Linux ARM.
>
> I have checked the Arch Linux MIPS project, but it seems to be inactive for
> years now. I have checked ArchWiki's DeveloperWiki section, but it seems to
> lack guidelines or suggestions on bootstrapping Arch onto a new architecture.
> Therefore I have a few questions:
> - Intuitively, I think I should cross-compile the packages of the "core"
> section (sans a few x64-specific packages) and build a bootable rootfs, but I
> was having some trouble finding how should I set makepkg to cross-compile. Do
> I just set up an Arch developer environment as usual, but substitute the
> toolchain with the cross ones?
> - Does adding a new architecture require modifications to the pacman source
> code? Or pacman itself should support new architectures? I have also tried
> looking at pacman source code, and it seems to not have hard-coded list of
> architectures, but I am not 100% sure about this (if I'll have to modify the
> source code of pacman, I will be emailing the pacman-dev mailing list
> regarding their policies on patches etc.).
>
> Thank you for your time and have a nice day.
> Sincerely
>
