Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:48:54 +0800 From: Paul Ambrose <ambrosehua@gmail.com> To: John Long <codeblue@inbox.lv> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to Loongson 3A (RS780e) Message-ID: <CAMwoQQ7eNW_QrQZH1Esd_TfR-C68TpUNRj5=pP=9gWOpE4kc5w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120711123136.GA32221@inbox.lv> References: <CAMwoQQ7NcM0S7LmHgOH2hhL9xPu-fTsZZxCRvJ9LLHZD-AjFhw@mail.gmail.com> <20120711123136.GA32221@inbox.lv>
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2012/7/11 John Long <codeblue@inbox.lv>: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:46:22AM +0800, Paul Ambrose wrote: >> I received my Loongson 3A >> box(http://www.lemote.com/products/computer/fulong/348.html) 9 days >> ago. It has Loongson 3A processor, 4 cores at 900Mhz( 64KB L1D + 64KB >> L1I per-core and 4MB L2 cache shared?? , MIPS64r2 with GS64 SIMD >> extension and pre-installed with a RHEL6-derived distribution. The >> hardware configuration is here: > > Nice, this is the first I have heard that the 3A is actually in anyone's hands. > >> I did some test and some research, it seems stable, so I want to port >> FreeBSD to this box. > > I have not seen that FreeBSD supports Loongson generally. Are you > talking about a one-off for the 3A or are you talking about a port to > all Loongson-based hardware? > > -- > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong > against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD > and proprietary / \ Mutt.org > attachments Code Blue or Go Home! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I mean one-off for 3A, because No.1, loongson 3 is for server application, and is fit for "the Power to Serve" No.2, loongson 3a is mips64r2 compatible just like XLP832 and Octeon 6330 which are already supported in FreeBSD/MIPS, and the chipset rs780e for 3a is a common hardware, we can easily porting freebsd to 3a. No.3, loongson 3a is the first cpu in Loongson 3, 3b is pin-to-pin compatible to 3a, if we got 3a brought up 3b is easy,
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