Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> writes: > Three initial bits about Guix's support for mips64el: > 1. We stopped producing a standalone installer for mips64el before the > 1.0 release, which means it's been years since anyone has been able to > install it without help. Actually, 0.12 was the last version¹, back in > 2016. > 2. We supported the Lemote Fuloong 2F²/Loongson 2 (MIPS III) processors. > Except for very specific sticks of RAM, it only supported 1GB of RAM. As > for the processor, I believe most other distributions moved to the > Loongson 3 as their base. Debian³ 9 (in 2017) it seems switched to > Loongson 3A/3B based machines for their Loongson support. > 3. "Generic" --target=mips64el-linux-gnu support from the GNU toolchain > doesn't support Loongson 2 chips, it needs some extra flags. I tested > this a few years ago and wasn't able to run a cross-compiled package on > one of our decommissioned mips64el build machines (citation needed). > > I suggest that we stop cross-compiling packages to mips64el since it is > really dead-dead, and not just mostly-dead or nearly-dead.
What does this mean for mips64el-linux as a system? I have considered asking about this in the past because keeping it around does have a cost and we're not trying to build for it.
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