diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips32-o32-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips32-o32-openrc.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8757c014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage1-mips32-o32-openrc.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+subarch: mips32
+target: stage1
+version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
+interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-mips
+rel_type: default
+profile: default/linux/mips/17.0/o32
+snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
+source_subpath: default/stage3-mips32_o32-openrc-latest
+compression_mode: pixz
+decompressor_search_order: xz bzip2
+update_seed: yes
+update_seed_command: -uDN @world
+portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
+portage_prefix: releng
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage3-mips32-o32-openrc.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage3-mips32-o32-openrc.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4cf373e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releases/specs-qemu/mips/stage3-mips32-o32-openrc.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+subarch: mips32
+target: stage3
+version_stamp: openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
+interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-mips
+rel_type: default
+profile: default/linux/mips/17.0/o32
+snapshot: @TIMESTAMP@
+source_subpath: default/stage1-mips32_o32-openrc-@TIMESTAMP@
+compression_mode: pixz
+decompressor_search_order: xz bzip2
+portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
+portage_prefix: releng