Firefox 3.0.1 on MIPS

Hi all…

Firefox 3.0.1 showing the Acid2 test on MIPS (click to enlarge)

Firefox 3.0.1 showing the Acid2 test on MIPS (click to enlarge)

I’ve been rather busy and thus haven’t had much time for Gentoo work, but today I managed to get some patches together that allow Firefox 3.0.1 to build and run on MIPS.

The ebuild is as yet, unkeyworded, as I wish to do some further testing.  I have successfully compiled it on little-endian MIPS, and it mostly seems to work okay.  It mostly passes the Acid2 test with some slight errors, but unfortunately, crashes part way through the Acid3 test — this I’ll investigate when I have the time.  It also crashes on my blog so your mileage may vary.

No testing has been done on big-endian MIPS at this stage, as my O2 is down for the short term (need to build a new kernel and get X running) so I’d appreciate feedback from users on this matter.