Re: mips64el machine - mrustc

[Mark H Weaver]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Danny,
>
> I have a mips64 machine (the mini-pc desktop version of Mark's laptop,
> with only one core). It is excruciatingly slow (if I remember well, just
> compiling guix takes a few hours) and makes a tractor like noise, so I
> turned it off and moved it to my closet. But I could take it out again
> and try to let it run during the day when I am not there, and see if
> I manage to upgrade Guix on it.

Based on my own experience with my Yeeloong, I suspect you will find
that machines based on Loongson 2F will lock up at some point during the
bootstrap when using binutils newer than 2.25.1.  It would be
interesting to confirm or deny this hypothesis.

       Mark