Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For A Tiny & Inexpensive MIPS IoT Single Board Computer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.14 Picks Up Support For A Tiny & Inexpensive MIPS IoT Single Board Computer

The MIPS code within the Linux kernel remains in a mature but rather stagnate state while the upstream MIPS architecture development has ceased and most vendors these days using Arm or RISC-V instead or even OpenPOWER prospects. But there still are some ongoing MIPS improvements to the Linux kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.14-MIPS

[doragasu]

I find these boards very interesting for tinkering, even with their low specs.

[uid313]

Rather uninteresting since it is a MIPS board. Then a Raspberry Zero is more interesting and appealing.
It would be much more interesting if it was a RISC-V or ARM board.

[schmidtbag]

It would be much more interesting if it was a RISC-V or ARM board.

Why? For someone who often makes a fuss about fully-open platforms, MIPS has gone a lot farther than ARM, so wouldn't you rather have this?
Besides, I think there are already platforms of roughly this size with both RISC-V and ARM.

There's more to the SBC world than Raspberry Pis...

[uid313]

Why? For someone who often makes a fuss about fully-open platforms, MIPS has gone a lot farther than ARM, so wouldn't you rather have this?
Besides, I think there are already platforms of roughly this size with both RISC-V and ARM.

There's more to the SBC world than Raspberry Pis...

I thought MIPS announced that they were going open source, but then changed their minds and didn't.

I think ARM and MIPS are equally closed.

[schmidtbag]

I thought MIPS announced that they were going open source, but then changed their minds and didn't.

I think ARM and MIPS are equally closed.

The R6 architecture is, to my understanding, open-source.

https://www.mips.com/mipsopen/

I believe one of the reasons China and Russia have been using MIPS is specifically because it's open source, but more mature than RISC-V. By having access to the whole architecture, they don't have to worry about backdoors, while inserting their own.