MIPS on 8-STABLE - initial version

[Jayachandran C.]

Hi all,

I've been doing some initial work on merging the MIPS work from
-CURRENT  to 8-STABLE.  At this point, I have an initial version at my
user area under 'user/jchandra/8-stable-mips'.  This  is a copy of
8-STABLE with about 400 needed changesets for MIPS from -CURRENT
merged, and other fixups done.

This boots up multi-user on XLR with SMP and networking enabled. I
will do further testing over the coming week and merge or do fixes.

The merge commands and the merge output is at
http://people.freebsd.org/~jchandra/8-stable-merge/ .  I think I will
have to change the mergepoints of most of the changesets outside sys.
Even under sys, I see mergepoints at mips/rmi, mips/cavium etc, I
don't know if this is intentional - if anybody knows please let me
know.

I would really appreciate if some of you could try it on your
platforms an tell me if I am missing any changes. If all goes well, we
can think of getting it into the stable tree...

Thanks,
JC.
jchandra at freebsd.org