A short update here.
I would like to thank mips.com in bringing back the Ci20 NAND images online. They were missing for some time. NAND images are back !
http://mipscreator.mips.com/CI20/images/default_NAND/Debian8_20160602/nand_2016_06_02.img
If somebody finds GCC 7.3.0 binaries for Ci20 mipsel Debian 8.4 (Linux ci20 3.18.3-ci20-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 25 10:24:41 UTC 2016 mips GNU/Linux)
useful I’m sharing them here
https://45.76.81.249:8000/mipsel-gcc/
Here is a screenshot from the environment
P.S Gentoo Ci20 NAND image is flawed http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/mips/desktop-ci20/
There seems to be some bug in the native GCC compiler which crashes randomly.
Remember when building new binaries via this compiler to set the appropriate Library paths
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mipsel-linux-gnu export LIBRAY_PATH
As well as proper symlinks in /usr/bin
gcc -> /usr/local/gcc-7.3.0/bin/gcc g++ -> /usr/local/gcc-7.3.0/bin/g++ cpp -> /usr/local/gcc-7.3.0/bin/g++
I have updated and will keep posting new pkgsrc-current (as of 20.02.2018) packages for Debian8 Ci20 here
https://45.76.81.249:8000/pkgsrc/debian8-ci20/All/