From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A810FE01473 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r39EGpxe006138 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.146.67] (128.224.146.67) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:16:51 -0700 Message-ID: <516422CC.6040202@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:16:44 -0400 From: Bruce Ashfield User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Robert P. J. Day" References: <5163442A.7070801@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: Cc: Yocto discussion list Subject: Re: what's the situation with MIPS support/BSPs/dev kits in yocto? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:16:54 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13-04-09 10:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > >> On 13-04-08 5:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> other than the canonical routerstation pro in the meta-yocto-bsp >>> layer, is there any serious work being put into MIPS machines? a >>> quick google didn't seem to find anything, and the rs pro itself was >>> end-of-lifed a while back (as i recall), so is there something else if >>> one wants to use yocto on a MIPS dev kit? >> >> From: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2444 >> >> MIPS suggested refresh: http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax >> >> .. but I've yet to complete the due diligence on seeing if I can >> actually purchase one :) That's going to happen shortly after yocto >> 1.4 completes. > > one final addition to the picture, the ERlite 3 seem to have some > real horsepower, according to the specs: > > http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#EdgeMAXhardware > > * (Layer-3 base forwarding) 1,000,000 pps for 64-byte packets. Line > rate (3 Gbps) across all three ports for 512-byte packets and higher > > * Dual-core MIPS64 processor with hardware acceleration for packet > processing and encryption/decryption > > * 3 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet ports > > * 512 MB DDR2 RAM > > * 2 GB onboard flash storage > > * 1 RJ-45 serial console port > > the full datasheet: > > http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_Lite_DS.pdf > > at $159 (CAD) which includes shipping, that strikes me as eminently > affordable. Indeed. And thanks for digging into this more, that's the leg work that I was starting for 1.5, and now it is largely done. Having a new h/w reference for MIPS has been near the top of the list for some time. Bruce > > rday >