From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7039 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Dunham Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: What would make musl 1.2? Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 04:07:02 +0000 Message-ID: <20150215040701.GB1662@newbook> References: <20150213074603.GA975@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <54DFD90D.3040009@openwrt.org> <20150215024419.GL23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423973236 1529 80.91.229.3 (15 Feb 2015 04:07:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 04:07:16 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7052-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Feb 15 05:07:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YMqUF-0003tB-OA for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2015 05:07:15 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 17449 invoked by uid 550); 15 Feb 2015 04:07:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 16317 invoked from network); 15 Feb 2015 04:07:06 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=NdFlUOnvFxyCyl3hwSzVyMMk60Iu/9+Ja4px2LTGhFE=; b=B9YvU7jfyF7TCMnEw+5P9hdKuOAnZoiik/mdjTgFe2Xwp4Yt0GOIIgi38xx46dg1Nq hAy9DJ9yRpUKX27qAPBEavxCz0DSQ0HEagn5HRsVZ+wiATDf7LlF5uwfWnBMx7JGIUpw mmQxJTie2N2tWog9ZX8lD8C5DyA0ZAF0lV5wBnXOt+nKHrA4aoXCI/k+SSlZS1Al+uC5 TBB7Xgl2u2AdrBkc7CokAMlt5GVrIhWzp5zQZ1xuvGVgX8h3ApJz6n0F9vjCBjmEguGs rPtlFgPfYFJsv3EkdPmVGwi/pxrC71GCYQrkz8wpf2rX/pHLgIcCnTqQ+pFxU3Rabouq 3X/g== X-Received: by 10.70.134.97 with SMTP id pj1mr28149930pdb.125.1423973214496; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:06:54 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150215024419.GL23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7039 Archived-At: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 09:44:19PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:23:57AM +1100, Felix Fietkau wrote: > > On 2015-02-14 00:02, Justin Cormack wrote: > > > Oh I forgot to check the openwrt platform support list which is relevant > > > > > > https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/platforms > > > > > > The missing ones there are avr32, mips64, ppc64. > > avr32 doesn't really seem to be widely used, It's probably worth > > skipping that one. For OpenWrt, mips64 would probably be the most > > important one among the missing platforms. > > You can always run 32bit code on a mips64 machine though. I can't > imagine any OpenWRT targets having large enough resources that you'd > actually want LP64. IMO mips64 is only interesting for desktop/server > systems. I went looking for MIPS64 systems recently and noticed a surprising number of networking devices with large amounts (8GB or more) of RAM, barely any flash/rom, and a Linux/Busybox based OS to process network requests. MIPS64 seems to be mainly used in higher-end networking systems (commercial routers/switches)--at least outside China, where it's used for HPC, some desktops, and just about everything else. HTH, Isaac Dunham