| 1 Aug 2025 |
 emily | can you explain to me which vmlinux image actually matters for MIPS | 12:30:59 |
 dramforever | maybe this is why they don't sell much internationally | 12:30:59 |
| dramforever | if anyone has actual nix rust questions please do interrupt | 12:31:20 |
| emily | is it the ELF or is it ECOFF or raw bin or what the hell do people actually consume | 12:31:22 |
| dramforever | i have no fucking idea | 12:31:58 |
| emily | (this is relevant for my kernel PR) | 12:32:02 |
| emily | well what did you boot on that lemote :P | 12:32:08 |
| dramforever | i've been using vmlinuz | 12:32:17 |
| emily | ok so self-decompressing ELF | 12:32:26 |
| dramforever | but it's also booting from pmon | 12:32:26 |
| dramforever | which may or may not be normal for mips | 12:32:34 |
| emily | yeah | 12:32:35 |
| emily | isn't PMON what people use though | 12:32:38 |
| emily | I guess maybe not for the MIPS machines that ran NT 4.0 or whatever | 12:32:46 |
| emily | but are there even MIPS machines used by anyone in the galaxy that are not Lemote at this point | 12:33:00 |
| dramforever | idk, what do you use on mips routers? | 12:33:06 |
| emily | umm good question | 12:33:13 |
| dramforever | well mips routers | 12:33:23 |
| dramforever | that's the nornal use for mips nowadays right | 12:33:48 |
| dramforever | if you're trying to use nixos on a nintendo 64 god help you | 12:34:10 |
| dramforever | * that's the normal use for mips nowadays right | 12:34:25 |
| emily | NixOS kernel packages are pretty useless for those since they need cursed OpenWrt kernels to be fair | 12:34:45 |
| emily | Liminix just drives the kernel build itself | 12:34:52 |
| emily | but yeah I guess I should see what target they use | 12:34:58 |
| dramforever | oh yeah this lemote thing runs freaking mainline linux | 12:35:27 |
| dramforever | at least back when 6.6 | 12:35:51 |
| emily | right which is all I really care about for deciding what targets our linux builds | 12:36:04 |
| dramforever | there's also nothing on this chip but lol | 12:36:21 |
| emily | I am doing split outputs and have to decide what should be the legacy target for random platforms we theoretically supported building a kernel on at some point | 12:36:29 |
| dramforever | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
right which is all I really care about for deciding what targets our linux builds okay so... no you cannot build a generic mips kernel to run on lemote | 12:37:03 |
