>ld.so for mips is linux based, right?

GNU based, but I hear Linux people have difficulty making that distinction:)

>There has been much work on the ld.so in the linux/sgi effort...
>
>Does anybody know if that stuff has been looked at?
>
>Just a thought

A good one.  Longer-term Id sooner get the NetBSD ld.elf_so to work.

It's dervived from a FreeBSD i386 elf ld.so, if memory serves, and has
all the ``standard'' NetSBD dl(3) support that's used on the Alpha; I
hope that's what, e.g., pkg Makefiles will come to expect.