Re: FreeBSD for mips

Josh Paetzel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
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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.

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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