Anyone can say me where I can buy a MIPS developer motherboard? I looked for it a few hours in google but I didn´t find anything...
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Buy a MIPS processor
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Re: Buy a MIPS processor
For MIPS64 ISA, Cavium's Octeon family is becoming popular, several developer boards.. and commercial products available. It has SMP capabilities. Linux and BSD ports are available.
Other options include Loongson and SGI systems, you might be able to find old SGI workstations on eBay. OpenBSD has a very active 64-bit port for them, even on systems IRIX only supported in 32-bit mode.
Loongson is newer, typically only found in netbooks like the Lemote. I think someone made some ATX developer boards, but they're hard to find outside of China. The 3A/3B cores even use an AMD SB710 southbridge, which is pretty interesting.
For MIPS32, I'd suggest finding cheap SOHO routers/access points. There are a lot of MIPS32 based devices, many are running Linux.. and there is usually documentation/source floating around.
Other options include Loongson and SGI systems, you might be able to find old SGI workstations on eBay. OpenBSD has a very active 64-bit port for them, even on systems IRIX only supported in 32-bit mode.
Loongson is newer, typically only found in netbooks like the Lemote. I think someone made some ATX developer boards, but they're hard to find outside of China. The 3A/3B cores even use an AMD SB710 southbridge, which is pretty interesting.
For MIPS32, I'd suggest finding cheap SOHO routers/access points. There are a lot of MIPS32 based devices, many are running Linux.. and there is usually documentation/source floating around.
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Re: Buy a MIPS processor
Not exactly a developer board, but you could try to find a Buffalo LinkStation LS on eBay. http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Category:LS2 You need to find the exact model number, as different ones have different CPUs, and they are rather limited. You can also purchase computers with MIPS processors from Lemote http://www.lemote.com/en/ . No idea about price.
Re: Buy a MIPS processor
Thanks for your answers.