On 2019/02/25 23:59, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> Hi OpenBSD ports,
>
> Since Debian stopped supporting Loongson's MIPS instruction set, I
> turned to OpenBSD to revive my old netbook, though the experience has
> been good and bad at the same time due to lack of manpower. By the
> time I started the release was 6.2 and the last available binary
> packages was for 6.1. For 6.3 mips64el package was available, but
> again missing for 6.4. (As this is a very underpowered, building
> required packages take quite a long time, e.g. llvm takes about 3 days
> to finish.) Also despite having received help from many knowledged
> people ehre, as an old architechture it starts to struggle to catch up
> with new packages, for example ruby-passenger has been failing to
> build since 6.3. Aspell shared the same fate. Overall it would be
> great if things become better, especially:
>
> * Make sure mips64el packages are provided with releases.
> * More time fixes for broken packages.
>
> In addition, it seems that the file system performance of ffs is worth
> than ext4 from Debian: for example git pulling ports will take around
> 2 minutes to finish on OpenBSD (with softdep), while in ext4 is around
> 30sec-1min. Not sure whether there are ways to improve this. As I
> don't have the expertise to fix it myself, I have returned to Debian
> and manually backported packages I needed and settled for now.
>
> Sorry it sounds like a rant. Just wish things improve for
> OpenBSD/Loongson over time.
I don't think anything will change for mips64el unless people who are
interested in the platform help out by fixing things.
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