I’ve now began building stages for the upcoming 2008.0 release. This release will see the introduction of MIPS3 stages for little endian targets (ideal for Loongson 2E users).
In addition, I have my O2 compiling the big endian stages, for MIPS4, MIPS3 and MIPS1 (in that order), so this will also see the introduction of generic MIPS1 stages for big endian systems.
I’ll try to provide these where I can, however there’s no guarantee that these generic stages will continue, nor is there any support provided for non-SGI/Cobalt hardware at this time.
Apparently there’s going to be a shake-up regarding the profiles too. The profiles used in the snapshots are completely different in structure — whether this will reflect what users see in the Portage tree or not, I’m unsure. I’ll let you know what the deal is there in due course when I find out myself.
If you like, I would be happy to do some testing of these stages with both my Loongson 2E and my Origin 200. I can also do testing with an Indy r5k if you like.
I was wondering if you were going to be rolling this for xorg version 1.4.x. If so, I have found that Zhang Le’s patch worked like a charm to get it working.
Yeah, I keep the Lemote patches for those things in my personal overlay, which is accessible via git and http protocols:
http://git.longlandclan.yi.org/?p=overlay.git
git://git.longlandclan.yi.org/overlay.git
I’m yet to fully test them with SGI hardware to ensure they don’t break stuff… if they’re safe, then I’ll look into getting them added to the tree.
Any progress on the compilation? I would gladly test the new stages as well. Got an Octane 2×400 and an O2@300 collecting dust.