MIPS future...

[Eugene Grosbein]

13.12.2018 1:15, Warner Losh wrote:

> And then there's the even larger question: how many people are still using
> mips32? It looks like a fair number, maybe, but I have no idea for sure, so
> if you do, please provide feedback on the platforms you are running FreeBSD
> 11 or newer on.

I have TP-Link TL-WDR4300 https://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/TL-WDR4300.html
that is MIPS32 74Kc AR9344 SOC with 8MB on-board flash and 128M RAM
that successfully boots to multiuser mode using very old FreeBSD 11-CURRENT.

I stopped trying it because its USB support was pretty unstable leading to random panics or just hangs and
8MB are not enough for my purposes without extra USB storage for packages and
I could not even fit FreeBSD 12 base system to its internal flash due to siginficantly increased code bloat
and ENOTIME to deal with troubles.