[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.

  one final addition to the picture, the ERlite 3 seem to have some
real horsepower, according to the specs:

  http://www.ubnt.com/edgemax#EdgeMAXhardware

* (Layer-3 base forwarding) 1,000,000 pps for 64-byte packets. Line
rate (3 Gbps) across all three ports for 512-byte packets and higher

* Dual-core MIPS64 processor with hardware acceleration for packet
processing and encryption/decryption

* 3 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet ports

* 512 MB DDR2 RAM

* 2 GB onboard flash storage

* 1 RJ-45 serial console port

  the full datasheet:

http://www.ubnt.com/downloads/datasheets/edgemax/EdgeRouter_Lite_DS.pdf

at $159 (CAD) which includes shipping, that strikes me as eminently
affordable.

rday

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