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On 02/17/2013 11:03 AM, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: |
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> In the last time I'm helping some other arches (also arches which I have no |
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> interest) because they appears understaffed. |
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> Days ago, I tried to make a virtual machine with qemu, for SH since the dev- |
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> machine[1] is a bit slow; well, I discovered we have no ISO[2] available and |
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> there is no handbook[3] for it. |
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> The same thing is for S390/S390X/M68K/. So how I am able to install one of |
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> that _supported_ arches if there isn't any sort of guide? |
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> An interesting fact is that we have an handbook for MIPS[4], a declared |
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> unsupported architecture (does not make sense for me). |
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I am supporting mips for the Lemote loongson2f and for the Atheros |
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AR7161. I'm trying to get my hands on a godson and Stuart will be |
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sending me two fulongs, which you can add to that list. Don't let the |
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fact that MIPS is a ~arch fool you. I don't think we should make it a |
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fully supported arch because of the number of ISA's and ABI's and |
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endiannesses (if such a word exists). It is impossible to test for all |
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combos which is what stable should mean. |
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So don't even think of dropping MIPS! Just leave it ~arch and I'll give |
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it love. |
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As far as the other arches go, I'm interested in: amd64, arm, mips, ppc, |
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ppc64 and x86. |
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> Another example is that we have no stable keyword on GCC/glibc for m68k and I |
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> don't know if I need to use another compiler or another libc. |
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> Checking on bugzilla I saw no report for some of those arches, so for me that |
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> _partially_ means that probably there are very few users for those arches on |
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> gentoo. |
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> Now, imho, we have 2 choice: |
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> 1)Support them with an iso or at least a manual if we can't do an handbook |
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ISOs don't make sense on all hardware. Eg. I offer an netboot image for |
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the lemotes. |
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> 2)Lose the stable keyword and don't waste manpower anymore. |
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I agree, but please keep at least the ones I mention above. Other devs |
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may have different ideas. |
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> What do you think about? |
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> Ref: |
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> [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml |
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> [2]: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml |
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> [3]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/#doc_chap2 |
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> [4]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook- |
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> mips.xml?style=printable&full=1 |
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Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] |
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E-Mail : blueness@g.o |
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