Group: Hardware/FSDG distributions/MIPS
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Introduction
This wiki page is there to understand if it makes sense to revive the Parabola mips64el port, find strategies to support MIPS in self hosted FSDG compliant distributions and/or look if it makes sense to spend time supporting MIPS hardware.
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CPU / Platform / System On a Chip | Architecture | Computers | Freedom status |
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Summary
- All the devices officially supported by LibreCMC are 32bit as of October 2021
TODO:
- Check the devices that are not officially supported by LibreCMC
- Check if the more recent Lemote devices / Loongson are interesting
- Check if more recent WiFi access points have 64bit MIPS
- Check if there are interesting MIPS SOCs for single board computers
- Check if there are powerful MIPS computers originally made for other uses cases (network infrastructure, other?)
References
- ↑ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/mips/Kconfig?h=v5.15-rc5#n239
- ↑ Verified on a WNDR3800 running librecmc v1.5.14-core with "hexdump -s 5 -n 1 -C /bin/sh' and 'echo -n I | hexdump -o | awk '{ print substr($2,6,1); exit}'"
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MIPS_architecture_processors
- ↑ https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mips64el/ch02s01.en.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110904201104/http://en.ingenic.cn/product.aspx?ID=60
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenic_Semiconductor#XBurst_microarchitecture
- ↑ https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
See also
- Group:Hardware/FSDG_distributions: CPU support in various FSDG compliant distributions