Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:00:55 +0300 From: Dmitry Kolosov <ivakras1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for mips Message-ID: <200812292200.55111.ivakras1@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <495909D7.5010904@tcbug.org> References: <200812291836.34099.ivakras1@gmail.com> <4958F700.4000105@student.utwente.nl> <495909D7.5010904@tcbug.org>
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On Monday 29 December 2008 20:33:11 Josh Paetzel wrote: > Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote: > > Dmitry Kolosov wrote: > >> Is there a *BSD porting project to MIPS? > > > > If by MIPS you mean the Silicon Graphics machines, then yes. > > > > FreeBSD has a MIPS port in the works, but as far as I can tell it's still > > considered highly experimental. However, you may want to help out if you > > have the time ;-) > > > > OpenBSD seems to have limited MIPS support: 64-bit only, so an O2 will > > work but an Indy probably won't. > > > > NetBSD just works. I've had it running on two SGI Indy machines without > > much of any kind of trouble. But then again, NetBSD runs on just about > > everything. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Alphons > > If instead he means wireless devices with a MIPS based processor like > the linksys WRT54G or such, they lack a MMU and no BSD will run on them, > nor are the changes needed to lobotomize BSD enough to run on hardware > without an MMU trivial. oh, sounds bad :(
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