Re: NetBSD/sgimips binary packages?

[Tim McIntosh <tmcintos%eskimo.com@localhost>]

> I've put my local binaries (built on NWS-5000 and NetBSD/newsmips 9.3):
> http://teokurebsd.org/netbsd/packages/mipseb/9.3_2023Q3/All/

Thanks for this, but there are ports that I need that are not found here, and I’d like to find a path that will allow me to stay up to date in the future.  I started building from source, but it’s a really slow process.

I’m curious about the GENERIC64_IP2x and GENERIC_64_32_IP2x kernel configs.  It looks like these are 64-bit (LP64) and 32-bit kernels (respectively) supporting 64-bit user land (though comments indicate the latter is currently broken).

As the R4x00 CPUs are 64-bit, what’s to stop me from building/running the GENERIC64_IP2x config and then using the still-supported mips64eb packages?

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mips64eb/10.0_2023Q4/All/

It seems like this could be a good path forward.

Or would this also require a full 64-bit world build / installation and/or other things that could prove difficult?

Thanks,
Tim

> On May 24, 2024, at 3:41 AM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> The binary packages link on the NetBSD/sgimips page <http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sgimips/> is dead:
>> 
>> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sgimips/6.0/
> 
> I've put my local binaries (built on NWS-5000 and NetBSD/newsmips 9.3):
> http://teokurebsd.org/netbsd/packages/mipseb/9.3_2023Q3/All/
> 
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui