Hi All,
	I've been rather quiet lately, largely due to university activities
absorbing about 98% of my time, and other projects absorbing much of the
remaining 2%.  But nonetheless, I'm still plodding along with testing,
and still intending to stick around despite the departures around me.

	As people would know, Lemote were kind enough to donate two of their
Fulong desktop computers to enable support of Gentoo on their platform.
 I'm pleased to announce that Gentoo works out-of-the-box for a
console-only system, and only needs a few small patches for X to work
(provided in overlays [1] and [2]).

	My intention was to test these patches on SGI systems to check they
didn't break compatibility there before merging them into the main tree,
however time has beaten me and I haven't had the opportunity.  With this
being my final semester at university, and work experience two days a
week, I don't expect this situation to improve.

	An alternative however, I'd like to propose is the addition of a 'lm2e'
local USE flag to the affected ebuilds, which are:

	x11-base/xorg-server
	x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati
	x11-libs/libdrm

	It'll be unmasked in the Cobalt profiles (which the Loongson platform
shares), and can simply be added to the USE variable on these systems.
It won't affect Cobalt as I believe running an X server on those systems
would be a pointless exercise.

	If there aren't any complaints, I'll look into getting this done
possibly next weekend.  At the moment, zhenghe (one of the boxes here)
has been reformatted, I'm setting up Gentoo 2008.0 on it, so I'll be
testing everything as I go.
-- 
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter)              .'''.
Gentoo Linux/MIPS Cobalt and Docs Developer  '.'` :
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   .'.'
http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter             :.'

I haven't lost my mind...
  ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.

Footnotes:
1. My personal overlay at git://git.longlandclan.yi.org/overlay.git --
browseable at http://git.longlandclan.yi.org/?p=overlay.git;a=summary
2. Gentoo CN overlay at http://www.gentoo-cn.org/gitweb/?p=loongson