Re: MIPS Hardware support

From: YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MIPS Hardware support
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:43:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKcpw6Vt2dDm2D8kv_zyShNH=tSoaOiCabR-gZZmGGavg+19mQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200227144910.GA25011@alpha.franken.de>

Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> 于2020年2月27日周四 下午10:49写道：
>
> Hi,
>
> we have 47 MIPS system types and I'd like to get an overview how alive
> they really are. I've already grouped the 47 systems a little bit by
> hardware I already own and regulary test kernels. Could you please
> give me some feedback about the "unclassified" systems ? What systems
> are supported by qemu (real test not just repeating qemu docs) ?
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Thomas.
>
> Hardware I own and regulary boot current kernels:
>
> Jazz family of machines (MACH_JAZZ)     /* runs with qemu */
> SGI IP22 (Indy/Indigo2) (SGI_IP22)
> SGI IP27 (Origin200/2000) (SGI_IP27)
> SGI IP28 (Indigo2 R10k) (SGI_IP28)
> SGI IP30 (Octane/Octane2) (SGI_IP30)
> SGI IP32 (O2) (SGI_IP32)
> SNI RM200/300/400 (SNI_RM)
>
> Hardware I own, but not booted for a while:
>
> Texas Instruments AR7 (AR7)
> Cobalt Server (MIPS_COBALT)
> DECstations (MACH_DECSTATION)
> Lantiq based platforms (LANTIQ)
> Ralink based machines (RALINK)
> Sibyte BCM91480B-BigSur (SIBYTE_BIGSUR)
>
> Unclassified:
>
> Generic board-agnostic MIPS kernel (MIPS_GENERIC)
> Alchemy processor based machines (MIPS_ALCHEMY)
> Atheros AR231x/AR531x SoC support (ATH25)
> Atheros AR71XX/AR724X/AR913X based boards (ATH79)
> Broadcom Generic BMIPS kernel (BMIPS_GENERIC)
> Broadcom BCM47XX based boards (BCM47XX)
> Broadcom BCM63XX based boards (BCM63XX)
> Ingenic SoC based machines (MACH_INGENIC)
> LASAT Networks platforms (LASAT)
> Loongson 32-bit family of machines (MACH_LOONGSON32)
> Loongson-2E/F family of machines (MACH_LOONGSON2EF)
> Loongson 64-bit family of machines (MACH_LOONGSON64)
> IMG Pistachio SoC based boards (MACH_PISTACHIO)
> MIPS Malta board (MIPS_MALTA)

I am using it with MIPS I6500/I6400(r6) and MIPS64R2-generic CPU
to test Debian.

> Microchip PIC32 Family (MACH_PIC32)
> NEC EMMA2RH Mark-eins board (NEC_MARKEINS)
> NEC VR4100 series based machines (MACH_VR41XX)
> NXP STB220 board (NXP_STB220)
> NXP 225 board (NXP_STB225)
> PMC-Sierra MSP chipsets (PMC_MSP)
> Sibyte BCM91120C-CRhine (SIBYTE_CRHINE)
> Sibyte BCM91120x-Carmel (SIBYTE_CARMEL)
> Sibyte BCM91125C-CRhone (SIBYTE_CRHONE)
> Sibyte BCM91125E-Rhone (SIBYTE_RHONE)
> Sibyte BCM91250A-SWARM (SIBYTE_SWARM)
> Sibyte BCM91250C2-LittleSur (SIBYTE_LITTLESUR)
> Sibyte BCM91250E-Sentosa (SIBYTE_SENTOSA)
> Toshiba TX39 series based machines (MACH_TX39XX)
> Toshiba TX49 series based machines (MACH_TX49XX)
> Mikrotik RB532 boards (MIKROTIK_RB532)
> Cavium Networks Octeon SoC based boards (CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC)

Debian has some to work as build farm and porterbox.
https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
Search mips there.

> Netlogic XLR/XLS based systems (NLM_XLR_BOARD)
> Netlogic XLP based systems (NLM_XLP_BOARD)
> Para-Virtualized guest system (MIPS_PARAVIRT)
>

A Russian company have a MIPS P5600. It is not supported by upstream kernel.
https://www.mips.com/products/warrior/p-class-p5600-multiprocessor-core/
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/baikal/baikal-t1

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YunQiang Su