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+Title: Restructuring of mips profiles
+Author: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>
+Content-Type: text/plain
+Posted: 2014-10-04
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 1.0
+Display-If-Keyword: mips
+Display-If-Installed: sys-libs/glibc
+
+To accomodate the new multilib approach in Gentoo, the mips profiles will be
+changing on Oct 11, 2014.  The new profile structure will be as follows:
+
+  [1]   default/linux/mips/13.0/o32
+  [2]   default/linux/mips/13.0/n32
+  [3]   default/linux/mips/13.0/n64
+  [4]   default/linux/mips/13.0/multilib/o32
+  [5]   default/linux/mips/13.0/multilib/n32
+  [6]   default/linux/mips/13.0/multilib/n64
+  [7]   default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/o32
+  [8]   default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/n32
+  [9]   default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/n64
+  [10]  default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/multilib/o32
+  [11]  default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/multilib/n32
+  [12]  default/linux/mips/13.0/mipsel/multilib/n64
+  [13]  hardened/linux/musl/mips
+  [14]  hardened/linux/musl/mips/mipsel
+  [15]  default/linux/uclibc/mips
+  [16]  hardened/linux/uclibc/mips
+  [17]  default/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel
+  [18]  hardened/linux/uclibc/mips/mipsel
+
+There are a few points to note about the change:
+
+1) Only the glibc profiles (1-12) are affected.  The embedded system profiles 
+(13-18) will not change.
+
+2) The glibc profiles will now explicitly state the ABIs.  In the case of
+non-multilib systems (1-3, 7-9) the stated ABI will be the only ABI available,
+while in the case of multilib systems (4-6, 10-12) the stated ABI will be the
+default ABI, and the others will be available by setting ABI_MIPS in make.conf.
+
+3) Profiles 1 and 7 are strictly 32-bit userland, but can run under either a
+32-bit or 64-bit kernel.  They will have CHOST = mips-unknown-linux-gnu and
+mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, respectively.  All the other glibc profiles (2-6, 8-12)
+are 64-bits userland and will have CHOST = mips64-unknown-linux-gnu or
+mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu.
+
+4) Only users of profiles 1 and 7 need to change their profiles sym links using
+`eselect profile`.  However, all users should be aware of the CHOST value on
+their system to ensure it remains unchanged after the profile updates.
+
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