Debian mips64el port
Contents
This page tracks the progress of the mips64el port (currently only in unstable)
Archive
The mips64el architecture is currently being bootstrapped in the unstable distribution, it doesn't have the corresponding testing distribution yet. Currently it has about 95% of the archive built.
Binary packages archive: http://ftp.debian.org/debian
Build logs: https://buildd.debian.org
QEMU images: http://mips64el.debian.net/debian/qemu
Statistics: https://buildd.debian.org/stats/
ISA
Little endian, N64 ABI, MIPS64r2 ISA, and hardware floating-point.
Installation
Daily builds of debian-installer are available. Alternatively run debootstrap on a Debian mipsel system, then configure bootloader and kernel.
Development
Development Team
YunQiang Su (syq)
- Anibal Monsalve Salazar (anibal)
- Aurelien Jarno (aurel32)
- Aron Xu (aron)
- James Cowgill (jcowgill)
There are significant contributions by people from open-source communities and companies. If you are a Debian developer interested in this port, please let us know.
Development machines
For Debian developers the etler.debian.org porterbox has both mipsel and mips64el chroots.
Build Machines
The mips64el port currently has 4 build daemons. In addition the 5 mipsel build daemons also build mips64el with lower priority.
Contact
#debian-mips IRC channel on OFTC
References
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/Projects#MIPS_N32.2FN64_ABI_port
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2013/StudentApplications/EleanorChen
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/Projects/Improve%20Debian%20on%20mips64el
https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2014/StudentApplications/SphinxJiang