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Hi All…

Well, my stagebuilds are in full swing… at this rate, I hope to have stage1 up in a day or two, and I’ll be starting on stage2, etc very soon.
New Profiles:

The structure is much the same as the 2006.1 release, just replace “2006.1″ with “2007.0″ in your profile path. Portage will tell you what to do when we officially mark the profiles deprecated.  Or, you can switch ahead of time… e.g. on Cobalt:

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -sv /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/mips/2007.0/cobalt/o32 /etc/make.profile

This will set your machine up with the new profile (using LinuxThreads… see below for NPTL).

MIPS1 Stages for Cobalt:

There has been some demand for such stage files for some time now, mainly for enthusiasts that wish to run Gentoo on mipsel machines that don’t implement the full MIPS4 ISA. In this release (after I get the MIPS4 stuff pushed out safely), I’ll build MIPS1 stages for those who wish to experiment. Please Note: We can’t help you with queries involving unsupported systems. For some userland-related issues, we may be able to provide some assistance, but anything involving hardware or kernel, you’re on your own.

The MIPS1 stages are primarily being used in a few unofficial ports of Gentoo to various architectures. I won’t say much more than that, as there are some legal issues which need to be addressed first… however, it is hoped these ports can go ahead. Naturally, I’ll let you know when this happens.

Heads Up - 2007.1 release:

In 2007.1, we plan to switch over to running NPTL across all MIPS platforms. At present, I’m doing some testing on mipsel using NPTL to confirm stability. Other MIPS developers have been running NPTL on SGI boxes for some months now with great success, so the code is considered reasonably stable now, even though it’s not keyworded as such. To use NPTL, switch to the nptl/ profile for your system, unmask glibc-2.4-r4, then upgrade glibc:

e.g. on Cobalt:

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -sv /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/mips/2007.0/cobalt/o32/nptl /etc/make.profile
# echo '=sys-libs/glibc-2.4-r4 ~mips' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# emerge -a glibc

It would be greatly appreciated, if a few brave users could give this a try, and report back their findings.

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