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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On 13-04-09 10:15 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. And thanks for digging into this more, that's the leg work that
I was starting for 1.5, and now it is largely done. Having a new h/w
reference for MIPS has been near the top of the list for some time.

Bruce

>
> rday
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