From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:51:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from alg138.algor.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.138]:8908 "EHLO bacchus.net.dhis.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:50:52 +0100 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.net.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j5UJoWhj004282; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:50:32 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5UJoUL9004281; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:50:30 +0100 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:50:30 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: jrc@skylon.demon.co.uk Cc: maxim@mox.ru, Krishna B S , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Popular MIPS4Kc boards? Message-ID: <20050630195030.GB3245@linux-mips.org> References: <6097c49050630030859b061c5@mail.gmail.com> <20050630191656Z8226101-3678+743@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050630191656Z8226101-3678+743@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 8275 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:16:42PM +0100, jrc@skylon.demon.co.uk wrote: > A possibility for a MIPS64 based device might be the recently announced > Broadcom BCM97398 IPTV set-top box reference design platform: > > http://tinyurl.com/bm44b > > This contains a BCM7038 with a 300 MHz R5Kf together with enough > peripherals to make it interesting: 2 x UART; 2 x SATA; 2 x USB 2.0; > 10/100 Ethernet. If produced in quantity and available it would > probably be more affordable than low volume evaluation boards. > > What I would like to see is a multicore (multithreading?) MIPS64 chip > attached by HyperTransport to a PC chipset (eg. Via KN800A) on a small > form factor board (mini-itx; micro-atx; micro-btx). An ideal plaything > for the kernel hacker and a useful resource for academic teaching and > research - a modern version of the UNSW U4600 ... There's a wild difference between the 5Kf, a relativly simple 64-bit core and one of the current 32-bit & 64-bit multithreading cores coming out. For the latter ones you'll probably still have to hold the breath for little. Ralf