Reviving Fedora MIPS

[Michal Toman]

On 02.06.2015 o 12:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:10:17PM +0200, Michal Toman wrote:
>> Apart from mips64el, we have lately started working on 32-bit mipsel, to
>> be ran on the Creator CI20 Borad [4]. This is basically 3 months behind
>> mips64el so there are no significant results yet, but hopefully will be
>> soon.
> 
> I have the Creator CI20 board.  Does this mean ImgTec are going to
> bring out a 64 bit development board :-?  I guess you won't be able
> to tell me ..

No idea here, your best chance is probably following IMG's press
releases or blog http://blog.imgtec.com/category/mips-processors

> Anyway my CI20 is currently running Debian, but I'll give Fedora a go
> when I have the time.
> 
>> Any help would be appreciated, especially in the area of kernel, u-boot
>> and some specific languages - haskell, erlang, ocaml etc. I have already
>> been playing with some of those and there is a list of issues on the wiki.
> 
> There's no OCaml 32 bit MIPS backend upstream, but there used to be
> one.  An older version of it can be found here:
> 
> https://github.com/retired-camels/ocaml
> 
> Claims to support BE and LE and uses the "n32" ABI, whatever that
> means.  It would require a certain amount of work to bring that up to
> date, but it's not impossible.

The n32 ABI is the one I would like to avoid. So we'll probably have to
go without ocaml on mips.

> As far as I can tell there is no 64 bit MIPS backend at all and never
> has been.  Depending on how different 32 bit and 64 bit MIPS are that
> might be a lot of work to implement.
> 
> Rich.

Thanks for your interest.
Michal