Re: Bug#834844: release-notes: document that mips* arches now require a R2 CPU

James Cowgill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26/08/16 00:19, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:10:09PM +0100, James Cowgill wrote:
>> +      The 32-bit MIPS support (both big and little endian) now requires a
>> +      processor supporting MIPS32 Release 2 of the MIPS instruction set.
>> +      Notably the Loongson-2E/2F and systems based on them (including the
>> +      Yeeloong laptop) are no longer supported.
> 
> So, what HW is there available today to run 32-bit MIPS Debian on?

mips32r2/mips64r2 was released in 2002. I expect the vast majority of
MIPS processors you can buy today support R2. Things that work with R2
include almost all recent routers, loongson 3 processors, cavium
processors, the ci20 ...

James
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