March 23, 2009

Gentoo/MIPS Stages

Hi All,

Well, I’ve just dusted off the second Lemote Fulong here, and I’m booting it up for another round of stagebuilds. (Yes… I haven’t gotten around to locating and implementing the auto stagebuild scripts that everyone else seems to be using.)

I’m also getting a newer piece of MIPS kit… a Lemote Yeeloong is currently sitting at Brisbane Airport in a box with my name on it… hopefully it’ll be in my hands by Wednesday evening. This will enable support of Gentoo/MIPS on this platform, and will also allow me to do some MIPS testing of packages while on my many hours of travelling between Brisbane and Laidley and hours spent at university. It’s based on the Loongson 2F CPU, which implements the MIPS64 ISA (the Loongson 2Es in the Fulongs implements MIPS3), and is little-endian.

Hopefully this will mean the bug count will start to decline once more for the MIPS team. 🙂