> > I was under impression that original octeon > (mips64) packages were built on SGI hardware which is no longer > supported so I was curios about new build machines. I am fully aware > that mips64 packages are available for 6.6 even though I try to stick > for most part with tools from the base. >
Mips64 is the cpu arch, octeon is just one of the implementations of a mips64 machine, so a package from any mips64 box would work (except little-endian mips64le ones from loongson). As for the original question, I do collect a bunch of octeons and go with -current/snaps on them. The very far-apart breaks I experience are less a problem than the joy of getting improvements quickly. Almost all crashes get fixes (or reverts) in a day or so. Also, the more often you upgrade your snaps, the easier it gets to back a few days worth of kernel, as opposed to only updating once per year and then finding some issue (like the sppp stack frame bug in 6.6 for octeons). -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
