We've got some work to do.
any news here?
(In reply to comment #1) > any news here? Yes, check the tracker bugs. New stages are built. Now we need to build new install media. If you'd like to help or test, please join #gentoo-mips on irc.freenode.net.
Things I could use some help on to make creating new install media easier: - Semi-recent multilib stage3 for mips3 or mips4 big-endian. I last had this working in 2013, but one of the major package moves killed the thing dead, and it's probably bitrotted too far to be salvageable in catalyst now. I'll take any seed stage3 from late 2014 on up to base off of, if anyone's got one. - uclibc-based stage3, mips1 through mips4, big-endian. This would be for the netboots. I already using musl to base a netboot off of, but musl doesn't play well with differing values for PAGE_SIZE. I.e., if I build the netboot on a machine running PAGE_SIZE=64K, then 4K and 16K machines will have problems. I suspect musl is hardcoding the PAGE_SIZE value somewhere. I'd like to keep the netboots small, under ~15MB, which uclibc can help with. If push comes to shove, though, I may just shoehorn the thing w/ glibc and go overboard on compression. With those two puzzle pieces out of the way, and with working netboots, creating LiveCD media should be pretty easy...though arcload's multi-machine functions haven't been tested in a LONG time. And then: - Anyone with working IP27 (Origin 200/2000/Onyx2) hardware or IP28 (Indigo2 Impact) hardware to test kernels with. Would like some confirmation that IP27's lockup bug isn't affecting only me, and for IP28, to get an idea of how long that machine can stay online before the spec exec issue drops it, and what the last action was before it died.
