[When this web site was first created, in 1998, MIPS
Linux resources on the web were relatively hard to find. Things
have evolved considerably since then, but as this page comes up in
search engines, I'll keep it alive, but lean.]
MIPS CPUs were designed from the beginning with UNIX in
mind, and MIPS-based workstations and servers have run just about every
flavour of UNIX ever written - ATT, BSD, Mach, and of course
Linux. There are still a lot of MIPS-based workstations and
servers out there, many of them orphaned by their manufacturers but
still servicable. And there are many more consumer and embedded
platforms being built around MIPS CPUs. Linux provides an
open-sourced OS solution for both sorts of systems.
Paralogos has been intimately involved in MIPS Linux
development for a number of years, having done the initial port of Linux
to the first MIPS32 4Kc cores in the late 1990's, the integration
of the FPU emulator with the kernel, and the design and implementation
of the
SMTC Linux kernel for MIPS MT multithreaded cores.
MIPS Linux Kernels
For MIPS Linux kernels, the resource of reference is
linux-mips.org
and its associated mailing list. The kernel.org
site, which provides the closest thing the Linux community has to a
"reference" Linux, now only trails linux-mips.org by a few months.
MIPS Linux Binaries
There are several collections of "userland"
binaries for MIPS/Linux, some based on
Debian, others based on various Red
Hat releases. Big-endain and little-endian systems require
different sets of binaries. Big-endian binaries are denoted as
"mipseb" or often simply "mips", while little-endian
packages are generally denoted as "mipsel". There's a
pretty good
compendium or resources on the linux-mips.org site.
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