Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:33:11 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: "Alphons \"Fonz\" van Werven" <a.j.werven@student.utwente.nl> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Dmitry Kolosov <ivakras1@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD for mips Message-ID: <495909D7.5010904@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <4958F700.4000105@student.utwente.nl> References: <200812291836.34099.ivakras1@gmail.com> <4958F700.4000105@student.utwente.nl>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5ABC 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAklZCdcACgkQJvkB8SevrsspowCgj5b2aCHRMDJKJTOxK1QLU46O StQAmgP2yC7V50Pvn2yTj3XmLvE09b6s =ijXC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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