| 31 Jul 2025 |
 Alyssa Ross | But I also couldn't convince myself there wasn't one | 19:59:04 |
| 1 Aug 2025 |
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 dramforever | rustcTarget madness is the only thing between me and a cross'd mips3 nixos rn | 11:12:14 |
 emily | wait Rust does MIPS now? | 11:37:48 |
| emily | I remember we had to figure out if that was a problem when switching to stc-ng | 11:38:02 |
| dramforever | mips64el is close but it's mips64r2 | 11:53:08 |
| dramforever | mips3 has less instructions but is the same abi | 11:53:21 |
| dramforever | hence, me banging my head to get rustc to use a target json | 11:53:34 |
| dramforever | properly | 11:53:51 |
| dramforever | in case you are wondering yes the whole point of getting rust working is stc-ng | 11:56:05 |
| Alyssa Ross | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
wait Rust does MIPS now? It was demoted due to lack of maintenance, but has always been there | 11:57:54 |
| emily | oh, we just can't native build it? | 11:58:12 |
| Alyssa Ross | They stopped making bootstrap tarballs | 11:58:47 |
| Alyssa Ross | Because they didn't work | 11:58:50 |
| emily | right | 11:58:58 |
| emily | always a good sign | 11:59:03 |
| emily | ok then I don't feel as bad about saying that it's likely we're going to have Rust in the boot path of non-switchable NixOS systems soon :P | 11:59:21 |
| dramforever | yes, if you have mips64r2 it's all good | 12:00:03 |
| dramforever | and if you don't not even debian supports your hardware now | 12:00:24 |
| emily | what kind of poor innocent hardware are you trying to torture with NixOS | 12:00:34 |
| emily | MIPS IV is from 1995? | 12:01:04 |
| emily | ok and III is 1991 | 12:01:17 |
| dramforever | https://web.archive.org/web/20250106210601/https://cohost.org/dram/post/5512696-the-nix-os-loongson-2 | 12:01:24 |
| emily | of course it's Lemote | 12:01:37 |
| dramforever | a certain famous guy has been known to use a variant of this with a larger screen | 12:02:20 |
| emily | what's the deal with LoongArch64 btw. is it MIPS with extra steps or RISC-V with extra steps | 12:02:20 |
 K900 | It's MIPS | 12:02:42 |
| emily | oh you mention it here | 12:02:43 |
| K900 | No extra steps | 12:02:47 |
