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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:40:42AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > >   How different MIPS SMP systems are?
> > 
> > o Old SGI heavy metal (several different system architectures).
> > 
> > o Cavium OCTEON SMP SoCs.
> > 
> > o Broadcom (several flavors) SoCs
> > 
> > o Loongson
> 
> o Old DEC hardware (DECsystem 58x0, R3000-based).
> 
> o Malta-based MIPS Technologies CMP solutions (1004K, 1074K, interAptiv).

And more.  It's fairly accurate that MIPS SMP system tend to have little
of their system architecture in common beyond the underlying processor
architecture and everything else should be treated as a lucky coincidence.

  Ralf