Gentoo/MIPS 2008.0: Stages Uploaded
Hi all…
I’ve now uploaded the stages for Gentoo/MIPS 2008.0. I’m hoping to get these pushed out to mirrors shortly, but in the meantime, you can find them on my devspace. These stages need a fairly modern kernel, 2.6.19 or later, ideally 2.6.2x-series, otherwise you’ll strike issues with rm doing strange things (as people have reported already). I have some kernel images for IP30, IP32, Loongson and Cobalt that should work with these stages.
These are only freshly compiled, and haven’t undergone much testing, so I’d appreciate it if some brave souls could give them a try and report back. Stages are available for:
Enjoy. 
June 1st, 2008 at 5:02 am
about gentoo/mips.bigendian 2008
as i wrote to the gentoo forum and #gentoo-mips, i’ve got an octane2 here and i progressively update my old 2006.1 to 2008 hard testing everything: the issues you have been reported is not related to the kernel. I am using 2.6.17 here without any issue.
I updated the profile, unmasking a lot of things
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
*have reported
also, have you got information about a real hard tested hard working 2.6.2* kernel with IP30 ?
my 2.6.20.18 is not stable, it is slow and it is reporting out a lot of kernel bug information
2.6.23 is simply not booting at all
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
Well… the kernel version issue from what I understand, is related to the version of libc and headers in use. These new stages use bleeding edge glibc and linux-headers.
As for a kernel for IP30… no idea… my IP30 is not in the land of the living anymore, so I have no hardware to test an IP30 kernel on.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hi, redhatter, I have got a loongson 2f box. I will use the mips1 little endian stage to install a gentoo on it. I will report back the result,
July 16th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
hi, redhatter, i am running the mipsel1 stage3 on loongson 2f now. it works well. however, it does not have a dhcp client. So i have to emerge one myself.
I think it would be better if we had it in the stage3, 
July 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
r0bertz: That’s great to hear. Actually, the Loongson 2F being MIPS64-based, it should be possible to run MIPSel4 stages (i.e. the proper Cobalt ones) on it.
As for a DHCP client, I don’t think any released stages ever came with one — that’s always been something for the user to install after unpacking. This has bitten me in the bum before — forgetting to install DHCP then having to manually bring the network up to be able to download dhcpcd.