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

[William Mills]

On 04/09/2013 07:27 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.
>
>    i ordered one last night -- total $159.79 (CAD), including
> shipping. it took a couple minutes to understand what i was reading
> here:

I ordered one just now from the N.C. distributor.  They did not say 
anything about back order so I expect it in a couple of days.

(And no this does not mean anything wrt TI.  It is for my own 
intellectual curiosity.)

>
> 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).
>