[yocto] what's the situation with MIPS support/BSPs/dev kits in yocto?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Bruce Ashfield wrote:

> On 13-04-08 5:59 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >    other than the canonical routerstation pro in the meta-yocto-bsp
> > layer, is there any serious work being put into MIPS machines?  a
> > quick google didn't seem to find anything, and the rs pro itself was
> > end-of-lifed a while back (as i recall), so is there something else if
> > one wants to use yocto on a MIPS dev kit?
>
> From: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2444
>
> MIPS suggested refresh: http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax
>
> .. but I've yet to complete the due diligence on seeing if I can
> actually purchase one :) That's going to happen shortly after yocto
> 1.4 completes.

  i ordered one last night -- total $159.79 (CAD), including
shipping. it took a couple minutes to understand what i was reading
here:

http://ubnt.ca/en/8-edgemax

  "edgemax" is simply the generic name for the "platform" -- the
product itself is the edgerouter lite 3 (or "erlite3" as they like to
abbreviate it):

http://ubnt.ca/en/edgemax/61-edgemax.html

so the next shipment comes in on friday to ubnt.ca, at which point
they'll ship one to me.  the admin claims that they're getting in only
a "very limited" number of them on friday, so you can take that with
whatever grain of salt you feel is appropriate, but i wanted one.

rday

p.s. i was interested in a newer MIPS box as a former student of mine
dropped me a note and told me his corp was planning a new product
based on the MIPS SEAD-3:

http://www.mips.com/products/development-kits/mips-sead-3/

but that thing is crazy expensive ($2K USD).

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