CC Adrian
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:27 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:49 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:37 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 4:52 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Doh, and even Debian ports doesn't support armeb anymore, else it
> > > > would just be a debootstrap away...
> > >
> > > Debian actually dropped all big-endian platforms other than s390
> > > now, the last other one was mips32 (mips32el is still there for the
> > > moment).
> >
> > I did mean "Debian Ports", which still supports a few more. But no
> > armeb.
>
> Ok, got it. I guess the old armeb ports was never in Debian, and predated
> the debian-ports system.
>
> Debian ports indeed still contain packages for big-endian m68k (obviously)
> as well as hppa, powerpc, ppc64 (in addition to the official ppc64le) and
> sparc64). I'm surprised nobody so far tried restarting the openrisc port,
> which got dropped when it appeared the corresponding gcc port would not
> be upstreamed.
I guess that is partly due to the limited availability of OpenRISC
hardware? I had it running on a DE0-NANO, but 32 MiB RAM and
no Ethernet doesn't bring you far...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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