[yocto] looking to "yoctify" mips-based ubiquiti edgerouter lite

[Robert P. J. Day]

  bruce ashfield will know what i'm talking about as i've been
torturing him over the last few days with this cool, new 64-bit, dual
core MIPS router that looks like a perfectly respectable replacement
for the current MIPS yocto reference board, the routerstation pro
(both being from ubiquiti).

  this is what i'm talking about:

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

salient specs:

 * dual-core 500MHz, MIPS64 (cavium octeon+)
 * 512MB DDR2 RAM
 * 2 GB onboard flash storage

anyway, i wrote a bunch of wiki pages on it starting here:

  http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/EdgeRouter_Lite

i've already downloaded the source so i have the kernel and the
.config file and was interested in building the toolchain so i could
at least compile and test the kernel.

  i know next to nothing about MIPS but, based on what i've read and
the possible tunings being:

AVAILTUNES += "mips mips64-n32 mips64 mipsel mips64el-n32 mips64el
mips-nf mips64-nf-n32 mips64-nf mipsel-nf mips64el-nf-n32 mips64el-nf"

i would think what i want is "mips64-nf", but anyone who's a MIPS
expert is welcome to correct me.

  this seems like a perfectly respectable MIPS platform for
experimenting, and it seems like it wouldn't be hard to come up with a
yocto machine definition for it.

rday

p.s.  one of the ubnt engineers i've been chatting with is adamant
that they're keeping the price of this thing at $99 USD (MSRP), so
it's certainly affordable for hackers.

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
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