On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Michal Toman <michal.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings everyone, > > you might know me from my former work on ABRT, or later Power and s390. > For the last few months however, I have been collaborating with > Imagination Technologies to bring back Fedora for MIPS. > > A brief history - some effort to bootstrap Fedora for MIPS has been done > around Fedora 11/12/13, but died afterwards because of lack of interest. > Even though the RPMs were labelled with mips64el architecture, they were > using the hybrid n32 ABI with 32-bit pointers and 64-bit data, rather > than the full 64-bit n64 ABI. > > Since we decided to go with n64 rather than n32, we have tried to > bootstrap the distribution from scratch (well, almost) to see how much > problems we will run into. I need to say that I was very surprised that > a majority of packages build fine with no or just minor tweaks to > specfiles and very few packages do require actual code patching. > > Anyway, we have now arrived into a state where Fedora mips64el userspace > can be booted and played with. I have created a QEMU image [1] and all > the packages and repositories are available from mipsfedora.imgtec.com > [2]. I have also created some wiki pages [3] briefly describing what we > are doing and will continue to expand them in the following days to be > more detailed. > > Apart from mips64el, we have lately started working on 32-bit mipsel, to > be ran on the Creator CI20 Borad [4]. This is basically 3 months behind > mips64el so there are no significant results yet, but hopefully will be > soon. > > Future plans are, naturally, to turn MIPS into a fully-fledged secondary > architecture, deploy koji-shadow, compose releases and do everything > other secondary archs do. Build hardware is likely to be donated by > Imagination Technologies. > > Any help would be appreciated, especially in the area of kernel, u-boot > and some specific languages - haskell, erlang, ocaml etc. I have already > been playing with some of those and there is a list of issues on the wiki. > > Hopefully you will like Fedora MIPS back > > Regards, > Michal > > [1] http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mips64el/images/20150601/ > [2] http://mipsfedora.imgtec.com/development/22/mips64el/ > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/MIPS/2015Bootstrap > [4] http://community.imgtec.com/platforms/creator-ci20/ > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct I'm very pleased to see Fedora MIPS make a return. While I personally do not own any MIPS hardware at this time, I'd definitely love to play with Fedora MIPS if I can get some hardware to use. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!
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