Hi, I've redirected this reply to the main yocto@ list since the status list is meant for the status reports only.
On Tue, 2024-11-26 at 17:49 +0100, Lukas Woodtli via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > It came to our (arguably a bit late) attention that the 'selftests' > for Rust on MIPS were disabled. > > We are in the unfortunate position to have a MIPS device in one of > our products. We develop several applications in Rust that run on > that device. Therefore we would really like to have a well maintained > Rust toolchain for Yocto on MIPS devices. > > To bring back Rust on MIPS support to Yocto, we could invest some > resources. And we would also be able maintain it. > > Where should we start our journey? Wold it be beneficial to join one > of the regular meetings to discuss that topic? Joining the weekly call would be a good way to discuss, yes. For info, next week's call is cancelled due to the project summit happening at the same time. To explain a bit about the challenges here, rust is now a "3rd tier" platform in rust itself, so the issue goes beyond Yocto Project. At that level they'll take patches to fix it but they don't test it. That will make it hard for us to support if the upstream is not doing testing themselves, which is why we made the decision to stop testing ourselves. Out of interest, are you using 32 or 64 bit MIPS platforms? MIPS is proving challenging to support in general as when we upgrade toolchains/qemu/kernels/other components, we end up having to fix regressions before we can merge things. Our developers are getting a bit tired/frustrated with carrying it along. The project is keen to embrace architectures but equally, we can't hold back development for things which aren't actively maintained. I'm open to ideas on how we could make things work. Sadly the situation does feel to be deteriorating. Cheers, Richard
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