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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, 47615@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 12:51:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKt3CgbXVXUlKSZh@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2clvx24.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:24:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > How about changing the mips64el documentation to say that there is
> > minimal support for the two architectures, with no substitutes, and may
> > be fun for tinkerers with the hardware. Then we could also change the
> > check in the guix.m4 to add mips64el-linux as supported in case anyone
> > does actually want to play with it.
> 
> No, not as “supported”, I surely don’t want to deal with mips64el-linux
> bugs.  :-)
> 
> > Current text:
> >
> > @item mips64el-linux (deprecated)¬
> > little-endian 64-bit MIPS processors, specifically the Loongson series,
> > n32 ABI, and Linux-Libre kernel.  This configuration is no longer fully
> > supported; in particular, there is no ongoing work to ensure that this
> > architecture still works.  Should someone decide they wish to revive this
> > architecture then the code is still available.
> >
> > Proposed text:
> >
> > @item Alternative architectures
> > In addition to architectures which are actually supported there are a
> > few formally unsupported architectures which may be of interested to
> > tinkerers. Namely mips64el-linux, little-endian 64-bit MIPS processors,
> > specifically the Loongson series, n32 ABI, and powerpc-linux, big-endian
> > 32-bit POWER processors, specifically the PowerPC 74xx series. There are
> > no installation tarballs, substitutes or promises that these
> > architectures are functional.
> >
> > And then I'd move it lower than the powerpc64le-linux entry.
> 

Ah, I didn't see your email.

> Maybe it’s more readable to keep it as a bullet list, like:
> 
>   @item mips64el-linux (@emph{unsupported})
>   …
> 
>   @item powerpc-linux (@emph{unsupported})
>   …
> 
> with a sentence explaining what “unsupported” means.

That was kind-of my idea with grouping them together

> IMO guix.m4 should either require --with-courage or emit a prominent
> warning for these.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
> 

The problem then becomes whoever tinkers with it will have to keep
either a custom guix.m4 for their guix package or a custom guix package
with "--with-courage" as a configure-flag.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-24  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06 12:24 [bug#47615] [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 1/9] gnu: bootstrap: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-14  3:51   ` bug#47615: " Chris Marusich
2021-04-14  7:36     ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-14 13:56       ` [bug#47615] " Efraim Flashner
2021-05-05  1:52     ` bug#47615: " Chris Marusich
2021-05-05  8:51       ` Efraim Flashner
2021-05-06 16:35       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 2/9] gnu: guile-3.0: Fix building on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-14  4:00   ` bug#47615: " Chris Marusich
2021-04-14 14:00     ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 3/9] gnu: binutils: Adjust test suite " Efraim Flashner
2021-04-17 19:51   ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Chris Marusich
2021-04-17 20:02     ` bug#47615: [PATCH 3/9] gnu: binutils: Adjust test suite on powerpc-linux Chris Marusich
2021-04-18  9:23     ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  5:11       ` bug#47615: [PATCH 3/9] gnu: binutils: Adjust test suite on powerpc-linux Chris Marusich
2021-04-27  7:01         ` [bug#47615] " Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 4/9] gnu: mesa: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 19:29   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [PATCH 5/9] gnu: Add mac-fdisk Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 6/9] gnu: american-fuzzy-lop: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-14  3:25   ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Chris Marusich
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 7/9] build: qemu-command: Add support for powerpc Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 17:02   ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-06 19:17     ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 22:27       ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [PATCH 8/9] gnu: mercurial: Skip tests on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 12:32 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH 9/9] gnu: nss: " Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 17:00   ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-06 19:18     ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-06 22:31       ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-07 20:33 ` [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Vincent Legoll
2021-04-08  7:00   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-17 16:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-17 16:51   ` Vincent Legoll
2021-04-17 19:42   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-17 20:07     ` Vincent Legoll
2021-05-06 14:38     ` bug#47615: " Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-10  8:20       ` Efraim Flashner
2021-05-11 20:24         ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-24  9:51           ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2021-05-26 14:09             ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-31 10:23               ` Tobias Platen
2021-04-22  7:59 ` [bug#47615] [PATCH v2 00/12] " Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 01/12] gnu: bootstrap: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 02/12] gnu: guile-3.0: Fix building on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-05-06 14:45     ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-10  8:01       ` Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 03/12] gnu: gcc-boot0: Use 128-bit long-double on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 04/12] gnu: binutils: Fix bug in test suite in libiberty Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 05/12] gnu: mesa: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 06/12] gnu: Add mac-fdisk Efraim Flashner
2021-05-06 14:48     ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-06 15:48       ` [bug#47615] " Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 07/12] gnu: american-fuzzy-lop: Add support for powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 08/12] build: qemu-command: Add support for powerpc Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 09/12] gnu: mercurial: Skip tests on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22 16:41     ` [bug#47615] " Maxime Devos
2021-05-06 14:51       ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support Ludovic Courtès
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 10/12] gnu: nss: Skip tests on powerpc-linux Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [PATCH v2 11/12] gnu: zstd: Adjust test suite for 32-bit architectures Efraim Flashner
2021-04-22  7:59   ` [bug#47615] [PATCH v2 12/12] gnu: glib: Disable failing test Efraim Flashner
2021-05-04 15:50   ` [PATCH v2 00/12] Add 32-bit powerpc support Efraim Flashner
2021-05-24  9:54 ` bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] " Efraim Flashner

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