Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-08-14 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi Matt, On 2018-08-11 22:46, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:18 PM J.P.Malhado wrote: > > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:13:43 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s, > > > which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU. > > > So the

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-08-14 Thread René Rebe
Hello everyone, On 12 Aug 2018, at 07:46, Matt Turner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:18 PM J.P.Malhado wrote: >> >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:13:43 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: >>> We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s, >>> which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU. >>>

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-08-11 Thread Matt Turner
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:18 PM J.P.Malhado wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:13:43 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s, > > which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU. > > So the performance and stability are bad. > > I'm commenting here

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-21 Thread J.P.Malhado
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:13:43 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > We need some more build machines, current we use some ER8s, > which use NFS as rootfs and they have no FPU. > So the performance and stability are bad. I'm commenting here from a position of ignorance: Would SGI hardware make good build

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-10 Thread YunQiang Su
Mathieu Malaterre 于2018年7月10日周二 下午2:27写道: > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:47 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > Mathieu Malaterre 于2018年7月9日周一 下午6:31写道: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > > > > > Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > >

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-10 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 2:28 PM Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:47 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > Mathieu Malaterre 于2018年7月9日周一 下午6:31写道: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > > > > > Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > > > > > > >

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-10 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:47 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > Mathieu Malaterre 于2018年7月9日周一 下午6:31写道: > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > > > Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > due to lack of enough man power and build machines

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 1:21 AM Brock Wittrock wrote: > > I'm still actively using it for a couple of different devices. > Let's avoid cross posting and keep this thread in debian-mips@lists.d.o. We'll move to other forum when suitable. Regards, Aron

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hi! > > > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port. > > > If you are using it, please tell us. > > I am using mips32eb a lot on wifi routers (self-compiled kernel with > > rootfs on a usb stick). There are some people here at a community > > wireless network that do use such

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread YunQiang Su
Mathieu Malaterre 于2018年7月9日周一 下午6:31写道: > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > > > Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at > > > > the same time, I think that now it is time

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:12 PM YunQiang Su wrote: > > Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > > > Hi! > > > > > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at > > > the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about > > > dropping mips32eb support

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread YunQiang Su
Adi Kriegisch 于2018年7月9日周一 下午4:34写道: > > Hi! > > > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at > > the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about > > dropping mips32eb support now. > [...] > > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-09 Thread Adi Kriegisch
Hi! > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at > the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about > dropping mips32eb support now. [...] > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port. > If you are using it, please tell us. I am

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! You should ask in a more public forum rather than on Debian mailing lists if you want to know about potential users. Adrian > On Jul 7, 2018, at 8:31 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > > Hi, folks, > due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at > the same time, I think

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Aron Xu
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:42 PM Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 23:29 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > Since they are quite new, I expect they support mips r2. > > I was not able to find any info about that. > > > Maybe the problem is due to lack of FPU? > > Possibly, did Debian jessie

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread YunQiang Su
Paul Wise 于2018年7月7日周六 下午11:42写道: > > On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 23:29 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > Since they are quite new, I expect they support mips r2. > > I was not able to find any info about that. > > > Maybe the problem is due to lack of FPU? > > Possibly, did Debian jessie have FPU

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 23:29 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > Since they are quite new, I expect they support mips r2. I was not able to find any info about that. > Maybe the problem is due to lack of FPU? Possibly, did Debian jessie have FPU disabled and stretch has FPU enabled? Here is

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread YunQiang Su
Paul Wise 于2018年7月7日周六 下午11:20写道: > > On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 22:54 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > use eb in a chroot env of openwrt etc env is a use case. > > In my case it was the default firmware with help of this: > > https://github.com/mattimustang/optus-sagemcom-fast-3864-hacks > > > What

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2018-07-07 at 22:54 +0800, YunQiang Su wrote: > use eb in a chroot env of openwrt etc env is a use case. In my case it was the default firmware with help of this: https://github.com/mattimustang/optus-sagemcom-fast-3864-hacks > What CPU is your router? mips r2 is a quite old ISA

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread YunQiang Su
Paul Wise 于2018年7月7日周六 下午10:41写道: > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 10:31 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > > > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port. > > I used jessie mips on my router in a chroot and was considering going you are right, use eb in a chroot env of openwrt etc env is a

Re: Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 10:31 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > In fact I don't know anybody is using Debian's mips32eb port. I used jessie mips on my router in a chroot and was considering going further, but stretch bumped the ISA requirements so I cannot use it any longer. Likewise someone on

Debian/MIPSeb: proposal to drop mipseb port?

2018-07-07 Thread YunQiang Su
Hi, folks, due to lack of enough man power and build machines for 3 mips* port at the same time, I think that now it is time for us to have a talk about dropping mips32eb support now. mips32eb, named mips, in our namespace, is used by few people now, at least compare with mipsel/mips64el. The