Re: MIPS64/N64 support

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:25:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Lluís Batlle i Rossell <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:06:06PM +0400, Nikita Karetnikov wrote:
> >> > I also seem to recall that gNewSense had only o32 support, years
> >> > ago. And not any n32/n64. Can it be?
> >> 
> >> I think this is correct.
> >> 
> >> > I'd simply try to avoid ext4 or even ext3, without changing the kernel. 
> >> > I don't
> >> > know of linux-libre, but you need something newer than 3.7 I think, to 
> >> > get the
> >> > ext* fix.
> >> 
> >> OK, what do you recommend: Ext2 or something else?
> >
> > In theory, anything should work. :)
> > I'd personally go for reiserfs or jfs.
> 
> Lluís is an ext[234] skeptic, so take it with a grain of salt.  ;-)

Hey, I pushed hard to get the fix of ext4 upstream. I even had a temporary patch
in nixpkgs to keep using ext4. :)

> More importantly: Lluís, is there a Linux configuration option to enable
> n64 support?  How does that work?

I think there is a simple option in the kernel to enable. I can't recall what it
is exactly.