> > Hmmm.  Maybe this is a silly question, but can one use a NetBSD/arc
> > system to build binaries for these machines?
> 
> I think all little-endian MIPS boxes are binary compatible - at least at
> the packages level.  There have been reports of people using NetBSD/pmax
> packages with just a few problems - there were some recent changes to
> remove SOFTFLOAT that also aid in this.  I don't know anything specific
> about NetBSD/arc, but I'd be surprised if binaries weren't compatible
> either.

NetBSD/arc is almost compatible with pmax and hpcmips.

Only exception is disklabel (MAXPARTITIONS==16).
Hpcmips's disklabel command is also incompatible with pmax,
because it handles fdisk (MBR) partition table.

At the package level, pmax, hpcmips and arc are all compatible.
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