commit 5632ae46: "mips_malta: move i8259 initialization after piix4 initialization" broke the network on mips. It still comes up, but doesn't pass packets.
Try this: wget http://landley.net/aboriginal/bin/system-image-mips.tar.bz2 tar xvjf system-image-mips.tar.bz2 cd system-image-mips ./run-emulator.sh [ wait for shell prompt ] wget http://google.com Under 0.15.1 it works, under 1.0 it doesn't. Identical binary. I bisected it to the commit in question, it's still broken in -master. Rob