FreeBSD/MIPS port

The current FreeBSD/mips TODO List contains items that we'd like to see, or items that people are currently working on.

There are a variety of MIPS32 platforms supported.

The most popular / tested is the Atheros MIPS SoCs.

The CPU families in question (in 32-bit mode):

• MIPS4Kc
• MIPS24Kc (from 9-RELEASE)
• MIPS74Kc (from 11-HEAD)

Specific boards (non-exhaustive):

• Ubiquiti Networks Router-Station (AR7130)
• Ubiquiti Networks Router-Station Pro (AR7161)
• Ubiquiti Networks PicoStation M2HP (AR7241)
• TP-Link TL-WR1043ND (AR9132)
• Mikrotik RouterBoard RB450G
• Alfa Networks Hornet UB (AR933x)
• D-Link DIR-825 (AR7161, AR934x)
• D-Link DIR-655 (QCA9558)
• Atheros PB44, PB47, AP94, AP96 reference designs (AR7161)
• Atheros DB120 reference design (AR9344)
• 8devices Carambola-2 (AR9330)
• Engenius ENH-200 (AR7240+AR9285)
• Buffalo Airstation WZR-300HP B0 A1
• Atheros AP135 reference design (QCA9558)
• TP-Link TL-1043ND v2 (QCA9558)
• TP-Link TL-WDR3600 v1.5 (AR9344)

May other devices have an AR71xx, AR724x, AR91xx, AR933x, AR934x, QCA955x in them. Any of those boards will work - provided enough RAM (32MB) and flash (8MB) is available to run FreeBSD-HEAD.

• Ralink RT305xF systems
• Malta (32 and 64 bit emulation)

• BERI (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/beri/) (From 10.0-RELEASE)

See Octeon article.

• NetLogic XLR/XLS CPU family

The 32-bit and 64-bit MIPS platforms (both big and little endian) can be tested under various emulator environments. Please see MipsEmulation for further information.

A very simple (and perhaps out of date) overview can be found here - BuildingMIPS .

AdrianChadd has built a set of build scripts to build MIPS/ARM access point images: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-wifi-build/ .

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