September 17, 2010

Gentoo/MIPS: Little Endian MIPS-I stage3 up

Hi all,

Well, after a long plod the stage 3 for MIPS-I little-endian systems is uploaded. I’m working on MIPS-III and MIPS-IV stages, as well as equivalents for big-endian systems.

Two things with this stage 3 tarball. First and foremost, /dev seems to be empty. I think this is most definitely a bug, and I’ll try to rectify it, but in the meantime, just merge sys-apps/makedev. That should clear everything up.

The second is that somehow dev-vcs/git got pulled in. I guess this is a happy accident since many will probably want it for fetching kernel sources. I’m undecided whether to leave it there or not… I probably should see why it got in there and fix it as that’s probably related to makedev‘s absence. I don’t see it in the profile, so it’s a mystery why it wound up in the system. I’ll do some further checks, but for the most part, it’s harmless.

I’m just rebuilding one of the Fulong2E’s with it to check it out… and as always, feedback is appreciated.