On 08/02/2017 10:10 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> Unfortunately Debian only supports MIPS64 in the Little Endian >> variant. There isn't even an unofficial port to the Big Endian >> variant of MIPS64 that I'm aware of. Big Endian MIPS is only >> supported in the 32bit variant. > > Actually there is a MIPS 64-bit big-endian port on rebootstrap: > > https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap > https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_mips64_gcc6/
Thanks for mentioning this, I completely forgot that rebootstrap also tests archs that aren't part of Debian or ports.debian.org. That said: while I think rebootstrap is a great thing, I wouldn't call that an actual port - mainly because there isn't actually a repository where one can download the packages created by rebootstrap the same way even the inofficial Debian ports have official repositories, and because rebootstrap is run as a CI system, it constantly recreates the packages from scratch, which is not how the other Debian archives work at the moment. It's a good place to start a new port if one wanted to though. In the case of mips64 BE one would need to fix the documented problems first: https://wiki.debian.org/HelmutGrohne/rebootstrap#mips64 Regards, Christian
