Re: MIPs CPUs support on Freebsd ...

From: Marcin Jessa <lists_at_yazzy.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:14:42 +0200
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:07:24 +0000
"Marcos Biscaysaqu - ThePacific.net" <marcos_at_ThePacific.Net> wrote:

> Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 12:43:58PM +0000, Marcos Biscaysaqu -
> >ThePacific.net wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi there.
> >>   Is already in the market a lot of new embedded boards with MICs
> >> CPUs 
> >>for a very good price, Linksys is already using it and now mikrotik
> >>with their Routerboard. Linux has support for it, any idea when
> >>Freebsd Will support it??. Im think it will be very important to
> >>freebsd support this CPUs is getting VERY  popular!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >When someone does the work.  Many of us would love to see such a
> >port, but it's a non-trivial amount of effort.  Simply saying it's a
> >good idea does nearly nothing to actually cause it to happen. :)
> >
> >-- Brooks
> >
> >  
> >
> I would love to help, but Im dont know even start with this, Im not a 
> kernel developer :( , but Im ready to do any necesary test.

MIPS  (not MICs) is ported to NetBSD, which is in many ways similar to
FreeBSD. I actually have one of those routerboards but haven't tried to
cross compile NetBSD and run it on that board yet.
I could build a MIPS version of my embedded software if there was a
demand for it. Anyway, there is not much developement going on with MIPS
so there is really not much need to port it over to FreeBSD. Yes, they
are cheap and relatively fast but far away from being the mainstream you
want them to be.

Marcin. 
Received on Wed Oct 05 2005 - 06:14:40 UTC

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