Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-10-07 Thread WANG Xuerui
On 2021/8/12 00:39, WANG Xuerui wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > ## Gentoo porting plans > > I'm planning to take ARCH=loongarch for the port; and support the LP64 > ABI > first. I'd like to support both LP64 and ILP32 ABIs, but that's not a > priority. > > The ABI flag might be named "ABI_LOONGARCH"

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, WANG Xuerui wrote: > According to their earlier reservation[1] and actual vendor system > behavior, there are 3 possible values: > - loongarch64 > - loongarch32 > - loongarchx32 > Only the LP64 ABI is fully supported by the current upstream submission. > The "loongarch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-24 Thread WANG Xuerui
Hi Ulrich, On 2021/8/24 16:46, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, WANG Xuerui wrote: >> It seems the discussion has gone quiet for a while now, so I take that >> we choose ARCH=loong over ARCH=loongarch according to GLEP 53? > LGTM > >> If that doesn't receive much objection, I'll

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2021, WANG Xuerui wrote: > It seems the discussion has gone quiet for a while now, so I take that > we choose ARCH=loong over ARCH=loongarch according to GLEP 53? LGTM > If that doesn't receive much objection, I'll prepare and send the > first few eclass patches soon. We al

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-23 Thread WANG Xuerui
On 8/12/21 14:39, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Michał Górny wrote: On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 09:21 +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: I would say this is mostly aesthetic matter, because we have equally long ARCH names like "microblaze" or "openrisc" too. From a user's perspective I'd persona

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-12 Thread WANG Xuerui
Hi Yixun, On 2021/8/12 17:55, Yixun Lan wrote: > HI Xuerui: > > This must be a *HUGE* project and gonna put lots of effort in to it! > So, first, good luck to you with all my best wishes!~ Thanks for your kindness! > > On 00:39 Thu 12 Aug , WANG Xuerui wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm your ave

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-12 Thread Yixun Lan
HI Xuerui: This must be a *HUGE* project and gonna put lots of effort in to it! So, first, good luck to you with all my best wishes!~ On 00:39 Thu 12 Aug , WANG Xuerui wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm your average Gentoo user who obviously thought his sleeping time is more > than enough, and ju

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-11 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021, Michał Górny wrote: > On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 09:21 +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: >> I would say this is mostly aesthetic matter, because we have equally >> long ARCH names like "microblaze" or "openrisc" too. From a user's >> perspective I'd personally prefer "loong" to sav

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-11 Thread Michał Górny
On Thu, 2021-08-12 at 09:21 +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: > On 8/12/21 02:13, William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:39:33AM +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: > > > I'm planning to take ARCH=loongarch for the port; and support the LP64 ABI > > > first. I'd like to support both LP64 and ILP32 AB

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-11 Thread WANG Xuerui
On 8/12/21 02:13, William Hubbs wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:39:33AM +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: I'm planning to take ARCH=loongarch for the port; and support the LP64 ABI first. I'd like to support both LP64 and ILP32 ABIs, but that's not a priority. The ABI flag might be named "ABI_LOONGAR

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-11 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 12:39:33AM +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote: > I'm planning to take ARCH=loongarch for the port; and support the LP64 ABI > first. I'd like to support both LP64 and ILP32 ABIs, but that's not a > priority. > > The ABI flag might be named "ABI_LOONGARCH" but that's IMO a bit long (

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Plans for a Gentoo/LoongArch port

2021-08-11 Thread WANG Xuerui
Hi everyone, I'm your average Gentoo user who obviously thought his sleeping time is more than enough, and just decided to start porting Gentoo to LoongArch. As this is such a niche architecture with no upstreamed support so far, I'm posting this to announce my intent and gather advice on how to