Re: MIPS support

2020-05-26 Thread Christopher Baines
Vincent Legoll writes: > To Christopher Baines >> At least the main blocker for me is the lack of substitutes for the >> things that fail to build with QEMU. So maybe one or a few machines >> which were able to build those specific things would be sufficient to >> provide some substitutes. > > I

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-25 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:20:45PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > Here's a first draft at removing mips64el-linux support from the > > documentation. I've left it as a supported system in (gnu ci), in (guix > > packages) and in the tests. I changed the tex

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Efraim Flashner skribis: > Here's a first draft at removing mips64el-linux support from the > documentation. I've left it as a supported system in (gnu ci), in (guix > packages) and in the tests. I changed the text where we mention that we > support mips64el-linux as an architecture, and els

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-25 Thread Efraim Flashner
Here's a first draft at removing mips64el-linux support from the documentation. I've left it as a supported system in (gnu ci), in (guix packages) and in the tests. I changed the text where we mention that we support mips64el-linux as an architecture, and elsewhere in the manual I've either removed

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey! Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:12:24AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> >> > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> >> From the manual or from the CI, to let the build farm do more useful >> >> things

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-18 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:12:24AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > >> From the manual or from the CI, to let the build farm do more useful things > >> I'm not against, but is it really making ma

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> From the manual or from the CI, to let the build farm do more useful things >> I'm not against, but is it really making maintenance difficult by still >> being in >> the codebase ? > > It's not really

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-08 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I forgot to add that there's actual mips64 HW (Cavium Octeon-based MIPS64 systems) available in the form of the ubiquity routers. OpenBSD supports some of them already, and it looks like nice hw (4 cores @ 1GHz, 1GB RAM). Look for ER-4 or ER-6P, but not the ER-X line as the CPU is not the

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello everybody, I'll do a single email answer, hope that is not off limits... The gnubee is dual-core x 2 threads, 880 MHz 32 bit mips, 512 MB RAM, 2x1Gbps ethernet, 6 SATA ports, SPI flash & microSD, USB 2 & 3, u-boot bootloader. http://gnubee.org https://www.mediatek.com/products/homeNetworki

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > I grabbed a gnubee during the crowdfunding campaign, but the CPU > is too low spec to do a lot of compilation on it. I'm not an expert on MIPS but I *think* the GnuBee uses a different architecture than what Guix was ported to. So,

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 06:27:31PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > From the manual or from the CI, to let the build farm do more useful things > I'm not against, but is it really making maintenance difficult by still being > in > the codebase ? It's not really a maintenance burden currently since

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Christopher Baines
Vincent Legoll writes: >> In the intervening years, interest faded away as free software friendly >> MIPS hardware became more rare. > > I grabbed a gnubee during the crowdfunding campaign, but the CPU > is too low spec to do a lot of compilation on it. At least the main blocker for me is the

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Jack Hill
On Wed, 6 May 2020, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, In the intervening years, interest faded away as free software friendly MIPS hardware became more rare. I grabbed a gnubee during the crowdfunding campaign, but the CPU is too low spec to do a lot of compilation on it. I also have a gnubee,

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, > In the intervening years, interest faded away as free software friendly > MIPS hardware became more rare. I grabbed a gnubee during the crowdfunding campaign, but the CPU is too low spec to do a lot of compilation on it. > Perhaps it would be more honest to officially remove the MIPS po

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:32:00PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: >> I was wondering about MIPS support, mainly because the Guix Data Service >> uses QEMU to emulate different systems so that the channel instance >> derivations can be computed (like [1]). I'm not su

Re: MIPS support

2020-04-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 08:32:00PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: > I was wondering about MIPS support, mainly because the Guix Data Service > uses QEMU to emulate different systems so that the channel instance > derivations can be computed (like [1]). I'm not sure if the emulation is > really ne