From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
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Subject: Re: alpine is not support mips64el platform on apk packages source
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 03:40:10 -0600
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Hello,

On Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:24:28 AM MDT =E5=88=98=E5=B0=8F=E4=B8=9C wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am a developer from Loongson company (R & D CPU/mip64el). I really need
> help from the community.

I am the person doing primary coordination of the mips ports in Alpine.

> In order to meet the needs of our customers for alpine docker images, we=
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> have made alpine docker images version 3.9 successfully based on community
> source code. We need to make official images  to solve this
> problemfundamentally, but the difficult is lack of apk package on mips64el
> platform. We want to cooperates  with our alpine community  to develop the
> alpine linux ecosystem on the mips64el platform. We can provide maintenan=
ce
> and anything community needs to prosper the mips64el platform ecology.

Many packages have already been adapted for mips64el, but we have not
done a mips64el build.  We are interested in supporting both mips64 and
mips64el on Alpine, as well as mips/mipsel.  We are not presently interested
in mips64r6 or mips32r6, as they use different bytecode.

We are *especially* interested in supporting Loongson on mips64el, but
it is not so easy for us to acquire hardware to test with.  Our builders are
based on 16-core Cavium Octeon3 CPUs at present, but it would be nice
to have some Loongson hardware in the mix as well.

The main blocker for Docker right now is that several dependencies of
Docker assume that mips is 32-bit O32 ABI.  We are working on solving
these dependencies so we can begin producing Docker images and
enabling CI.

Your help with this would be appreciated, as well as a reliable source of
Loongson hardware.  Those are the main things we would need to be
able to support Loongson effectively in Alpine.

Thanks,
Ariadne