> BTW, parabola calls its loongson distribution mips64el, which I don't > understand yet, given they are not using n64, :-)
Both n32 and n64 require 64-bit CPUs and can use native 64-bit registers, so there is something 64 in them. If I remember correctly, Gentoo also used the mips64el name with n32. > And another thing > that is a mistery to me is why parabola ported mplayer2, and not > mplayer, whereas archlinux is already dropping mplayer2 from > community, and mplayer remains there... Parabola mips64el contains packages which are/were used by its developers (or sometimes which are just easy to build), this might have been the reason for choosing mplayer2. "Porting" an mplayer is probably limited to just disabling OpenGL support (it's not useful on a YeeLoong) and building it.
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