On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:22 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > >> After more than half of a year's hard work, we have the mips64el port >> almost done. >> Now we have more than 7600 packages build successfully. > > Congrats! > > Please create a page on the Debian wiki and or update the MIPSPort > wiki page about this new architecture. You could also send patches to > update the list of ports on the Debian website: > > https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort > http://www.debian.org/ports/ > http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ > http://www.debian.org/devel/website/ I have update the wiki pages and working on update WML. > >> The current build status can be found in http://vip.moonux.org/attempted/ > > Would you like me to register mips64el.debian.net and CNAME it to > vip.moonux.org or another domain? > >> Now I get a new board and give it 18GiB DDR3 memory and 1TB hardisk. >> Most important is that it is running a Debian Unstable, MIPS64EL. >> >> Anyone has need to port package(s) can apply a account. >> Please post me your ssh public key signed by a trust-able PGP key. > > You should probably talk to DSA about getting it a debian.net domain > and getting it listed in LDAP as a porter machine. > > https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi I have mailed to DSA, and am waiting for their response. > >> I also working on make a rootfs to make it easy to install this port. > > In Debian we usually expect people to either run debootstrap or d-i to > perform Debian installations since otherwise some files that should be > different between installs will be identical. So please just point > people at debootstrap instead. This is a problem with Debian that we > currently have to work around once for every image creation tool; all > of debian-live, cloud images, mips64el rootfs' etc need/have hacks to > remove files like the dbus machine identifier or the openssh host keys > from the system after debootstrap has run. The patch for loongson 3A has not be in upstream kernel. The D-I support is not possible for now. Live system may be a good option. > >> Here we still have 2 problems: >> 1. I believe that it is time of use to talk about how to make this >> port to debian-ports.org. >> Anyone can help us? > > http://www.debian-ports.org/contacts > > I have heard rumours on IRC that debian-ports.org is having resource > issues so adding new ports there might be hard. > >> 2. Which ISA to be used for this port when it is in debian-ports. >> Now we use mips64r2 with tune loongson3a. >> Should we downgrade ISA requirement to mips3 or mips64? > > That is up to yourself and people who own or otherwise care about MIPS > hardware. Take into consideration what hardware is available > commercially now and will be in the future, as well as what hardware > most people already own. I don't know much about GCC tuning but I > expect that tuning for one specific machine isn't a good idea. > > For future the future steps, here are the requirements for adding > mips64el to the archive and getting it officially included in a future > Debian release: > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html > http://release.debian.org/testing/arch_policy.html Thanks for you link. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/caktje6en85omcxtdu+3-zj3-k5rgppemiwg6vah1jpbe2sc...@mail.gmail.com >
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