Re: Preliminary MIPS N32 port now available

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:41:24AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> More importantly, because there are so many patches for Loongson 2F that
>> are not yet ready to be applied upstream -- either because they are not
>> sufficiently clean, or because they choose a compile-time configuration
>> that uses Loongson-specific features or works around Loongson 2F bugs --
>> I expect that we'll want to maintain a separate "loongson" branch for
>> the foreseeable future, even if some of the patches are applied to
>> core-updates.
>
> Personally, I think mips64el should be a fully qualified release architecture
> just as i686 and x86_64. So it would be better to have it in master and
> not in a separate branch.
>
> So far, the only machines of this architecture available (and of interest)
> to developers are loongson.

I agree.  Let’s not go ahead of ourselves: when someone comes up with a
plan to use Guix on a mips64el machine that is not Loongson, then we can
adapt (and it’s great that you know about all these Loongson workarounds.)

WDYT?

Ludo’.