Feature Request: Support for MIPS64el architecture

[olljanat]

I noticed that someone was asking about how to port RancherOS to MIPS64el on rancher#3027 and out of curiosity I did investigate it a bit and added initial configs for it to os-base, os-initrd-base and os-kernel when I was working on those and tried to get new buildroot version working (that is not ready like you can see from #12).

However, now it looks to be we might have potential #2 (comment) maintainer for this use case so we can consider finalize that work.

High level TODO list:

• Finalize os-base build configuration
• Finalize os-initrd build configuration
• Finalize os-kernel build config and setup build environment for it.
• Add MIPS64el support to system-docker
• Implement MIPS64el CI to os-services (at least for user docker)
• Add OS build scripts for MIPS64el to this repository.

It is also worth to mention that Debian supports that architecture and here is some info from them https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/

[XiaodongLoong]

Docker support on mips64le: the docker-ce version 20.10.0 on the milestone.
docker/cli#2507

[XiaodongLoong]

Could I build a docker-ce version 19.03 on mips64le with a forked repository? Once docker-ce community support mips64le, we can move to docker-ce 20.10.0.

[XiaodongLoong]

Is there any commit that refer to port ARM64 or AMD64 on BurmillaOS ? So that I can port mips64le on BurmillaOS quickly.
Thanks!

[olljanat]

Looks that we mights end up to sharing Docker binaries between system and user Docker #39 so we need similar static binaries like on https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/

[olljanat]

Closing as no one is working on with this.