From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f9OKwg904689 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:58:42 -0700 Received: from hermes.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9OKwcD04685 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:58:38 -0700 Received: from zeus.mvista.com (zeus.mvista.com [10.0.0.112]) by hermes.mvista.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9OL0YB13623; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:00:34 -0700 Subject: Re: I am looking for a mips machine From: Pete Popov To: "J. Scott Kasten" Cc: "H . J . Lu" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com In-reply-to: <20011024121944.B6520@lucon.org> X-Authentication-warning: oss.sgi.com: mail owned process doing -bs In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.15.99+cvs.2001.10.09.08.08 (Preview Release) Date: 24 Oct 2001 14:00:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1003957215.26240.29.camel@zeus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 13:42, J. Scott Kasten wrote: > > My general impression is that your looking for a "FAST" board, and a > little endian board make for mutually exclusive requirements. Not that > little endian couldn't be fast, but just about every piece of hardware > I've seen running little endian has used one of the lesser mips chips in > it where they've cut corners multiplexing address and data over the same > pins and so forth. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but of all the ones > I've looked at, the little endian boards had the less capable hardware to > boot. I think that's because the market was being driven by these little > Win CE things, and CE only supports little endian. Well, not quite. Linux supports LE too but the choice of LE mips desktop systems is limited. The fastest LE cpu/board I've worked with is the Alchemy Au1000 part running at 396MHz. The board doesn't have and IDE or SCSI controller though. However, it has pcmcia and we've added support for their pcmcia controller, so I was able to use a Hitachi 2GB pcmcia ata card (looks like the IBM Microdrive). That might be one option for reasonably fast native compiles. Pete > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, H . J . Lu wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:19:27AM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > > I use a Cobalt Qube for alot of my developement. It works fine. I know it > > > is not in Ralph's tree yet but I plan to send him my work soon. > > > > I think Cobalt Qube is slow and is hard to expand the memory. I need at > > least 128MB RAM. Also the current mips kernel doesn't support it. > > > > > > H.J. > > >