Hi Geert! On 11/18/20 9:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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... The Debian wiki has some information on armeb and OpenRISC: > https://wiki.debian.org/ArmPorts > https://wiki.debian.org/OpenRISC Apparently, interest for armeb was lost after people realized the hardware being used could run little-endian as well and OpenRISC apparently had licensing issues. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
