Op Thu, 1 Sep 2016 00:18:47 +0200 schreef Paul Boddie <[email protected]>:
> So I guess there were gNewSense builds for mipsel at some point to > support the Lemote products, and that these worked with the various > kernels provided for the Ben NanoNote? I don't remember if I used the gNewSense kernel or another one. > Fortunately/unfortunately, it was shown that the A20 card can most > likely be endorsed, thus eliminating any urgent need for the jz4775 > card. But that would also mean that the A20 card could be used > instead (to support ARM systems, obviously). Hm, considering the problems we've had with mipsel, I'm not keen on adding another architecture to the repo. > The reference you provide [1] is somewhat confusing, partly because I > don't really know that much about the Yeeloong, but also because I > thought that it was a MIPS64 system. Maybe only the later > models/variants are MIPS64, but it then confuses me that this change > would seek to affect MIPS32 systems, too. As I understand it, it can run 32 bit and 64 bit ABIs [1] and the "one size fits all" MIPS I o32 instruction set that Debian provided, but not the MIPS II instruction set to which they're switching now. > Interestingly, Guix(SD) supports mips64el presumably for Yeeloong > compatibility, but I'm not too familiar with Guix at the moment, so I > don't know what architecture version restrictions that system imposes > in its build environment. I can always dig up some more information > about that. It's good to know that there are other options that still support the Yeeloong. > In addition, the jz4780 uses widely-disliked PowerVR technologies, > but maybe they are not mandatory for it to be used in a productive > way. And Imagination Technologies seem to have moved on to the CI40 > (which is less suitable as a build host), and I don't see a > particularly large amount of obvious support for the CI20 any more. So that's a dead end, then. So if I understand you correctly, then with regards to current and near-future hardware options, there's no real reason to continue mipsel support in gNewSense post-Yeeloong. > Maybe it's some other kind of server issue. Anyway, if you need any > assistance then I'd be happy to take a look. Ack. [1] https://blogs.gentoo.org/blueness/2014/07/02/continued-support-for-the-lemote-yeeloong-gentoo-mips-is-alive-and-well/ _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
