Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Patches Posted For Enabling WiFi/Bluetooth With The Once Interesting MIPS Creator CI20

These days the MIPS architecture is dead but eight years ago when the Raspberry Pi, the PandaBoard, and other early Arm single board computers were enjoying the limelight, Imagination Technologies decided to release the Creator CI20 MIPS SBC. It's been years since hearing of the CI20 or dusting off my CI20, but a new patch series this week tries to get the mainline Linux kernel to enjoy working WiFi and Bluetooth for this MIPS single board computer...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-MIPS-CI20-2023

[alpha_one_x86]

Error: though not exactly having high standards for a 1.2GHz dual-core MIPS32 CPU even in 2025. -> 2015

[LinuxID10T]

Really wish it had gotten better operating system support and a successor. They could have made MIPS work if they had actually got some hardware out.

[stormcrow]

MIPS is not dead. The PRC's computer industry is betting on MIPS to make up for the loss of having (easy) access to future ARM and x86 based designs. Also, there's a lot of routers that use MIPS based processors still. Just because the western world has standardized on ARM and x86 doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to follow. RISC-V might make inroads at some point, but right now there's no production level hardware, only dev boards and prototypes.

[Adarion]

MIPS or not, it is Imagination Technologies. I read PowerVR or ImgTec and I know I should avoid it, for you'll never have a working GPU driver. Simple as that. And now they submit a WLAN driver for a board that is many years old? Better late than never, but that this board wasn't a success is no surprise with that kind of support.

[intelfx]

MIPS is not dead. The PRC's computer industry is betting on MIPS to make up for the loss of having (easy) access to future ARM and x86 based designs. Also, there's a lot of routers that use MIPS based processors still. Just because the western world has standardized on ARM and x86 doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to follow. RISC-V might make inroads at some point, but right now there's no production level hardware, only dev boards and prototypes.

If PRC is betting on MIPS, we'd better make damn sure it is dead.

[rene]

MIPS is not dead. The PRC's computer industry is betting on MIPS to make up for the loss of having (easy) access to future ARM and x86 based designs. Also, there's a lot of routers that use MIPS based processors still. Just because the western world has standardized on ARM and x86 doesn't mean the rest of the world is going to follow. RISC-V might make inroads at some point, but right now there's no production level hardware, only dev boards and prototypes.

that is not really true, they forked the MIPS ISA into an incompatible Loongarch Frankenstein.