Three initial bits about Guix's support for mips64el: 1. We stopped producing a standalone installer for mips64el before the 1.0 release, which means it's been years since anyone has been able to install it without help. Actually, 0.12 was the last version¹, back in 2016. 2. We supported the Lemote Fuloong 2F²/Loongson 2 (MIPS III) processors. Except for very specific sticks of RAM, it only supported 1GB of RAM. As for the processor, I believe most other distributions moved to the Loongson 3 as their base. Debian³ 9 (in 2017) it seems switched to Loongson 3A/3B based machines for their Loongson support. 3. "Generic" --target=mips64el-linux-gnu support from the GNU toolchain doesn't support Loongson 2 chips, it needs some extra flags. I tested this a few years ago and wasn't able to run a cross-compiled package on one of our decommissioned mips64el build machines (citation needed).
I suggest that we stop cross-compiling packages to mips64el since it is really dead-dead, and not just mostly-dead or nearly-dead. ¹ https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_microprocessor_specifications ³ https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> רנשלפ םירפא GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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