[Nix-dev] Status report on the loongson2f based fuloong mini-pc

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

As Ludovic asked that to me, here is a status report.

NixOS builds, and:
- it boots
- mysql starts
- xserver + slim start with 'xterm'
- firefox runs (without javascript jit compiler meanwhile)
- mplayer runs (without loonson2f simd code meanwhile)
- kde4.kdelibs build.

I'm rebuilding now with the change in the system name (I asked in the list some
time ago about it), and with a gcc "--with-arch=loongson2f" that should give
faster code produced.

I'm currently using the ABI n32 (which should be the best available now) for
mips64 (big endian, so, not mips64le). Debian uses o32 I think, GNewSense too,
and until this NixOS I think only Gentoo had an n32 ABI. But I'm biased, because
I only know those three distros.

Things I now remember to be done:
- Describe an installation procedure for others to install it.
- Publish a channel of built binaries.
- Include loongson2f optimized versions of programs (mplayer, specially).

Regards,
Lluís.