MIPS Shows Off Their New Linux Kernel Port To nanoMIPS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MIPS Shows Off Their New Linux Kernel Port To nanoMIPS

Earlier this week MIPS Technologies announced their new MIPS I7200 processor core built on the new nanoMIPS ISA. A day after they unveiled their new GCC port to this much-changed nanoMIPS instruction set and now today they sent out their initial Linux kernel patch for bringing up this new MIPS version that is coming with a new/updated kernel ABI...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-nanoMIPS-Patch

[eydee]

MIPS is a Microsoft program that allows them to "steal" data from MSE and Defender users. ISA is a legacy interconnect between motherboards and expansion cards.

Open projects have to stop stealing abbreviations. It's not funny anymore.

[Chewi]

I don't know what the hell that Microsoft thing is but MIPS as an architecture has existed since 1985.

As for ISA, I don't know which came first but it's also an Individual Savings Account in this country. So what?

[starshipeleven]

Open projects have to stop stealing abbreviations. It's not funny anymore.

MIPS isn't an open architecture (in the sense that if you want to manufacture CPUs with that arch you need to buy a license), you post is 135% wrong.

[RSpliet]

As for ISA, I don't know which came first but it's also an Individual Savings Account in this country. So what?

Whether the Instruction Set Architecture or the "Industry Standard Architecture" was first doesn't matter too much, the author you challenged was wrong in a different way: the abbreviation for Instruction Set Architecture wasn't coined by the OSS world, but rather started emerging in literature as a more precise term for what was previously just referred to as "architecture", in an attempt to better disambiguate from the microarchitecture. If it wasn't already, Turing-award winners Hennessy and Patterson have made the use of the term "instruction set architecture" a de-facto standard in academia today, while the ISA bus has mostly lost its relevance in everyday computing.

[ehansin]

In tech, there are a lot of TLA's (three letter acronyms.) Yes, MIPS is not a TLA.

[carewolf]

In tech, there are a lot of TLA's (three letter acronyms.) Yes, MIPS is not a TLA.

Translation-Look-Aside buffers?

[torsionbar28]

I don't know what the hell that Microsoft thing is but MIPS as an architecture has existed since 1985.

Seriously, who hasn't heard of MIPS cpu's? They've been in everything from SGI workstations to Nintendo 64. From network routers to the Sony Playstation. Anyone who works in IT is familiar with MIPS processors. Heck even Windows OS was ported to MIPS at one time.

Googling "Microsoft MIPS" yields no results related to anything eydee described, not sure what the heck he's thinking of.

[Wilfred]

Seriously, who hasn't heard of MIPS cpu's? They've been in everything from SGI workstations to Nintendo 64. [...]

Ah, I remember those.