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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Spam-Score: -3.76 X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 5E80169710 X-Migadu-Scanner: mx10.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -3.76 X-TUID: Af0GQchpm4f4 --Z0jWMhBLlrksWGRq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 version=C2=B9, back in 2016. 2. We supported the Lemote Fuloong 2F=C2=B2/Loongson 2 (MIPS III) processor= s. 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. Debian=C2=B3 9 (in 2017) it seems switched to Loongson 3A/3B based machines for their Loongson support. 3. "Generic" --target=3Dmips64el-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. =C2=B9 https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/ =C2=B2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_microprocessor_speci= fications =C2=B3 https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=A8=D7=A0=D7=A9=D7=9C=D7=A4 = =D7=9D=D7=99=D7=A8=D7=A4=D7=90 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --Z0jWMhBLlrksWGRq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEoov0DD5VE3JmLRT3Qarn3Mo9g1EFAmZ9Ni0ACgkQQarn3Mo9 g1GHRhAAv5xrVxjhhawn4dw+z2lM7r83hoWrFhhZlT0XuylxKwqbunVjan9CEODG DVryLAIEHfb8N9GVHYPFSPVcFv/J6O1KfQmbcQ7jyxMe0Y1UElGXylGb9CDVOka4 4WIt7zgy5Tx7gaBXfm2nJwTM73rnyQ15JRKlvcJYupS+kSz7/3SXMocha+GeA+04 PSfufgpxulI/LAc4pcYtk9UjxH/0lxVcpxQ28AOR6XxlhrltmL0ML41CK8TAsoSz 1Wd8OjShaXhpsugdg9ltIuQFCchICCcqsHHgY/pndfRSLva2QctduHIiNdNQX7R9 nfnNx7SSNZ5B/0fmjKcrxOgOaE3jMrUmofc80JPQCehP9QdS0vmtahwhCHbUaWQ1 KJKNNymYdgcUUOqsNNGf2XJig+uUYqA81AxRJ10fXGnzjOWnAqWbCthyhZ1Zd3Hr b2ocotEBHoQMxXx/glYiVEhI5dCktjb0zaSjaVJONQPVinikFrBbU37wCDvByYgi 31x4+4+6pukyrWEgOqPTQjU9LUcQoapkPhoDJralE3qTh1spkkijVmzuMltvghOo gecndGm9tZsoiMmJ0fuEKg0u4tduXYo5yz45WDotF3jg2ihtMUttdn3RKrKUg8F5 4w3vmPtiaL6EB6JpNuuR8QKjDDDd+QM6qgO23pHxtcMXk1m7IQY= =EAc/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Z0jWMhBLlrksWGRq--