On 29/4/21 10:46 am, Sijie Bu wrote: > Hello, > > Not sure if I'm posting it to the right place, but this is a > developer-related question so hopefully it's in the right place. > > I will be starting an internship project with CIP United, a company > specialized in MIPS processors, and will be porting Arch to MIPS64 R6. And my > project supervisor would like to know pacman's patch policies for > architecture-specific modifications. > > I have already asked on arch-ports list and was told by people from Arch > Linux 32 that the pacman codebase is generally portable, but I see them > maintaining a fork for certain i486-specific optimizations. I have also > looked at the readme files (HACKING etc.) but was unable to find a clear > statement of your patch policies. Therefore, I would like to know some > details about your patch policies, especially the ones regarding non-amd64 > architectures.
I doubt you will need any patches for a MIPS port (and am quite surprised there are patches for i486...), but we are happy to accept patches to support other architectures. Allan
