> 
> It is my understanding from working on the Linux/MIPS project that the
> shared library support was a ways off and needed more work than just
> ld.so in glibc.  There were also boatloads of ld patches that needed
> to be made, or so I'm given to believe.

nope. what needs more work is some rare relocation cases not used when
using gcc. from what i can see from the output of the dump program the
stuff required in the objects are there..... what's missing is ld.so.

i'm currently restoring/recreating all stuff after a disk head crash.
they always come so unexpected :-(. but then my first priority is ld.so
since bsd now works great.
> 
> Also Per has a R4000 based machine, which may require minor
> modifications to run on the R3000/R2000 DECstation machines, but maybe
> he's already done them...
> 
there is no difference unless the compiler is invoked with any of the
mips3 or r4000 flags set. binaries created on my r4400 machine run on
r3000's and vice versa.