Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] arch/mips: Allow building for MIPS IV

From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>, buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] arch/mips: Allow building for MIPS IV
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 00:05:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230809000557.50d91f53@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a811b514-4a8c-7659-c70a-f86c8915251c@gmail.com>

On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 14:56:56 -0700
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:

> > This list is quite odd, because it's not even an exhaustive list of the
> > MIPS cores that we support.  
> 
> Good point, I suppose that should be addressed in a separate patch.

Sure thing.

> > Is mips4 supported by glibc, uclibc-ng and musl?  
> 
> Yes, all 3 C libraries still support mips4.

OK.

> > Since IMG kind of gave up on MIPS, we have difficulties in getting some
> > help in Buildroot to maintain MIPS support and address issues, so I'm a
> > bit cautious about adding more MIPS stuff.  
> 
> If there are not too many issues, I suppose you can CC me when you 
> encounter them and I could try to take a look.

OK, sounds good. Sometimes it's not an issue, but simply trying to
understand what all those MIPS cores are, what they support, etc. We'll
definitely reach out to you when such questions arise.

Example of a MIPS-specific build failure:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/4b4/4b488cc62c3c1496109528eb78020c64001d4300/build-end.log
(I haven't investigated, maybe it's trivial).

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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