From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Llu=EDs?= Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name>
Subject: Re: MIPS64/N64 support
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 13:56:24 +0200
Message-ID: <20131001115624.GA1965@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
References: <87fvsmgtsm.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwmuhtb3.fsf@karetnikov.org>
	<20131001070942.GV1965@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
	<87li2dv3bz.fsf@karetnikov.org>
	<20131001080318.GW1965@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
	<87ob79e5eu.fsf@karetnikov.org>
	<20131001093009.GX1965@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
	<87zjqtb90x.fsf@karetnikov.org>
	<20131001100420.GZ1965@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
	<87vc1hutak.fsf@gnu.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Return-path: <guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59736)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <viric@viric.name>) id 1VQyZ9-0007qP-L9
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:56:41 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <viric@viric.name>) id 1VQyZ3-0004Kx-Fd
	for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2013 07:56:35 -0400
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <87vc1hutak.fsf@gnu.org>
List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution."
	<guix-devel.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:guix-devel@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guix-devel>,
	<mailto:guix-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org
To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote:
> Llu=EDs Batlle i Rossell <viric@viric.name> skribis:
>=20
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:06:06PM +0400, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
> >> > I also seem to recall that gNewSense had only o32 support, years
> >> > ago. And not any n32/n64. Can it be?
> >>=20
> >> I think this is correct.
> >>=20
> >> > I'd simply try to avoid ext4 or even ext3, without changing the ke=
rnel. I don't
> >> > know of linux-libre, but you need something newer than 3.7 I think=
, to get the
> >> > ext* fix.
> >>=20
> >> OK, what do you recommend: Ext2 or something else?
> >
> > In theory, anything should work. :)
> > I'd personally go for reiserfs or jfs.
>=20
> Llu=EDs is an ext[234] skeptic, so take it with a grain of salt.  ;-)

Hey, I pushed hard to get the fix of ext4 upstream. I even had a temporar=
y patch
in nixpkgs to keep using ext4. :)

> More importantly: Llu=EDs, is there a Linux configuration option to ena=
ble
> n64 support?  How does that work?

I think there is a simple option in the kernel to enable. I can't recall =
what it
is exactly.