LinuxBIOS for MIPS

[Dave Dworin]

Is LinuxBIOS available for MIPS architecture?

Dave

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[Ronald G Minnich]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Dave Dworin wrote:
> Is LinuxBIOS available for MIPS architecture?

I would like it to be, but we have not found a good platform to work with.

ron

[Bari Ari]

Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Dave Dworin wrote:
> > Is LinuxBIOS available for MIPS architecture?
>
> I would like it to be, but we have not found a good platform to work with.
>
> ron

We are looking at getting LinuxBIOS or PPCboot up on the Broadcom 1250

http://www.broadcom.com/products/1250.html

Dual 64bit MIPS cores, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Macs, Dual DDR controllers, 
PCI and HyperTransport I/O all on a single die and around 10 Watts at 1 
GHz. I hear there is a quad core version due out soon.

They look a bit pricy but we could easily stuff enough of these into a 
single 42U rack to offer the same performance as the large 10-TFlop 
cluster thats being built at LANL with 1/10 the heat.

Bari

[Bari Ari]

Anyone have experience with :

http://linux-vr.org/

http://www.hacksrus.com/~mike/lince/kernel.htm#Source

http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/pdamips.html

http://www.linux-mips.org/hardware.html

We looked at this a couple years ago for the getting Linux up on the 
Mips VR41xx series, but Mips didn't win in the CPU for PDA wars.

Bari

[ollie lho]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 06:45, Bari Ari wrote:
> We looked at this a couple years ago for the getting Linux up on the 
> Mips VR41xx series, but Mips didn't win in the CPU for PDA wars.

Yea, and my Agenda VR3 is literally a brick now.

Ollie

[Bari Ari]

> Yea, and my Agenda VR3 is literally a brick now.
>
> Ollie

To make a new Romdisk

http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~acedil1/agenda/romdisk.shtml

plus you'll probably need a soldering iron and a flash programmer if 
it's really dead.

Bari

[Bari Ari]

Another place to look for Mips boot support is AMD with the Au series 
(formerly Alchemy)

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/Au10...

http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/TechnicalResources/0,,50_2334...

Bari