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This release is the MIPS port equivalent of the 20090627 i686 release in which we updated tor to 0.2.0.35, the latest stable version sporting some major bug fixes. Updates and changes to busybox, ntpd and the setup scripts also came over with no differences and the build scripts only needed minor editing. We tested both little and big endian QEMU images for several days each (as node Mufasa) before switching to the Mikrotik rb433ah board.

The only difficulty we had was in constructing the vmlinux-initramfs images for the Atheros AR7161 boards. The rootfs is constructed using our mips(el) uclibc system found here. But compiling the kernel in that environment led to problems, so we compiled it and cpio-ed in the initramfs image using our debian glibc systems found here. The binaries produced by the uclibc systems for rootfs were find, but the kernel+initramfs led to a kernel panic in which the kernel couldn't find /init. I suspect cpio in the uclibc system, but since it doesn't matter if the kernel is compiled in a glibc or uclibc system, this workaround was good enough.