Ericson2314's suggestion here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161158#discussion_r822295406

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lib/systems/examples.nix b/lib/systems/examples.nix
index 1ee704a1811..997a7a8c273 100644
--- a/lib/systems/examples.nix
+++ b/lib/systems/examples.nix
@@ -93,9 +93,25 @@ rec {
     config = "mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu";
   } // platforms.fuloong2f_n32;
 
-  mips64el-linux-gnuabin32      = platforms.mips64el-linux-gnuabin32; # the rust project does not publish a bootstrap tarball for gnuabin32
-  mips64el-linux-gnuabi64       = platforms.mips64el-linux-gnuabi64  // { rustc.config = "mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64"; };
-  mips64el-qemu-linux-gnuabi64  = platforms.mips64el-qemu-linux-gnuabi64;
+  # MIPS ABI table transcribed from here: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples
+
+  # can execute on 32bit chip
+  mips-linux-gnu                = { config = "mips-linux-gnu";                } // platforms.gcc_mips32r2_o32;
+  mipsel-linux-gnu              = { config = "mipsel-linux-gnu";              } // platforms.gcc_mips32r2_o32;
+  mipsisa32r6-linux-gnu         = { config = "mipsisa32r6-linux-gnu";         } // platforms.gcc_mips32r6_o32;
+  mipsisa32r6el-linux-gnu       = { config = "mipsisa32r6el-linux-gnu";       } // platforms.gcc_mips32r6_o32;
+
+  # require 64bit chip (for more registers, 64-bit floating point, 64-bit "long long") but use 32bit pointers
+  mips64-linux-gnuabin32        = { config = "mips64-linux-gnuabin32";        } // platforms.gcc_mips64r2_n32;
+  mips64el-linux-gnuabin32      = { config = "mips64el-linux-gnuabin32";      } // platforms.gcc_mips64r2_n32;
+  mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabin32   = { config = "mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabin32";   } // platforms.gcc_mips64r6_n32;
+  mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabin32 = { config = "mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabin32"; } // platforms.gcc_mips64r6_n32;
+
+  # 64bit pointers
+  mips64-linux-gnuabi64         = { config = "mips64-linux-gnuabi64";         } // platforms.gcc_mips64r2_64;
+  mips64el-linux-gnuabi64       = { config = "mips64el-linux-gnuabi64";       } // platforms.gcc_mips64r2_64;
+  mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabi64    = { config = "mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabi64";    } // platforms.gcc_mips64r6_64;
+  mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabi64  = { config = "mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabi64";  } // platforms.gcc_mips64r6_64;
 
   muslpi = raspberryPi // {
     config = "armv6l-unknown-linux-musleabihf";