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Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by tobiasu on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:19PM (#7071834)
You appear not to realise that SGI hardware contains MIPS CPUs. A large amount of code is shared between these platforms:

http://www.openbsd.org/sgi.html http://www.openbsd.org/octeon.html http://www.openbsd.org/loongson.html

A mips32 port would also be very desirable for all those shitty little routers with their ancient Linux kernel, but sadly nobody is working on that at the moment.

So, should the network and firewall OS that many people claim OpenBSD is, slash its support for MIPS devices?

Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by xradionut on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:43PM (#7071996)
There's probably a few hobbyists that still use SGIs. Octeon is mostly commercial vendors, who could pay for all of OpenBSDs needs out of their fancy executive toilet paper budget. And there's one OpenBSD hacker who uses Loongson, even GNU cult leaders use GNU/Linux on Loongson instead.
Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by rnemo on Thursday January 16, 2014 @04:56PM (#7072812)
More than one OpenBSD hacker used loongson
Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by rjsw on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:06AM (#7076093)
If you want to support MIPS for embedded applications then loongson is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to run stuff right now.
Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by xradionut on Friday January 17, 2014 @12:15PM (#7076964)
How's availability outside of China? I'm not finding many of these systems in the US.
Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by rjsw on Saturday January 18, 2014 @11:31AM (#7081318)
I don't know about the US but there is a place in the Netherlands that says they have netbooks and small systems in stock.
Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by nailer on Thursday January 16, 2014 @04:54PM (#7072804)
Good point, I didn't know MIPS is still used in the embedded space, I thought it was all ARM these days.

But OpenBSD could be testing on an embedded MIPS development device at any data center they want.

Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by chrissmithuk on Friday January 17, 2014 @03:54AM (#7074906)
MIPS is on the rise again as recent SoCs are more power efficient than ARM. I don't have a source for this unfortunately.

Sony Bravia EX series televisions are MIPS and Linux based for example.

Re:OpenBSD will shut down if we do not have the funding to k... by gonzo on Friday January 17, 2014 @05:24PM (#7078870)
It's not power efficiency, it's money.

MIPS SoC licensing is less expensive than ARM licensing at the smaller volumes inherent in low-end routers (.vs phones and tablets).