On 02.06.2015 o 12:19 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 10:10:17PM +0200, Michal Toman wrote:
Apart from mips64el, we have lately started working on 32-bit mipsel, to be ran on the Creator CI20 Borad [4]. This is basically 3 months behind mips64el so there are no significant results yet, but hopefully will be soon.
I have the Creator CI20 board. Does this mean ImgTec are going to bring out a 64 bit development board :-? I guess you won't be able to tell me ..
No idea here, your best chance is probably following IMG's press releases or blog http://blog.imgtec.com/category/mips-processors
Anyway my CI20 is currently running Debian, but I'll give Fedora a go when I have the time.
Any help would be appreciated, especially in the area of kernel, u-boot and some specific languages - haskell, erlang, ocaml etc. I have already been playing with some of those and there is a list of issues on the wiki.
There's no OCaml 32 bit MIPS backend upstream, but there used to be one. An older version of it can be found here:
https://github.com/retired-camels/ocaml
Claims to support BE and LE and uses the "n32" ABI, whatever that means. It would require a certain amount of work to bring that up to date, but it's not impossible.
The n32 ABI is the one I would like to avoid. So we'll probably have to go without ocaml on mips.
As far as I can tell there is no 64 bit MIPS backend at all and never has been. Depending on how different 32 bit and 64 bit MIPS are that might be a lot of work to implement.
Rich.
Thanks for your interest. Michal