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. 
March 24th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Great!
March 24th, 2009 at 3:50 am
I’m also waiting for mine
Hope to receive it soon so I can play with Gentoo/MIPS 
March 24th, 2009 at 7:26 am
hey how did you get one?
i looked in lemote site, but there no online sale!
where did you find yours?
thanks
March 24th, 2009 at 8:42 am
They do sell them online… There’s suppliers in Europe and South America.
Anywhere else, you order direct. They cost about AU$650 all up including the unit cost (US$350), shipping (US$37) and telegraphic money transfer fee (AU$30 via Suncorp, your bank could be different). You arrange this by emailing them directly.
According to Australian Customs law, imports under AU$1000 do not attract an import fee… this too, will be different in other countries.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:19 am
@koda: Lemote distributors in Europe include tekmote.nl and ipsolutions.at