FreeBSD for mips

[Dmitry Kolosov]

On Monday 29 December 2008 20:33:11 Josh Paetzel wrote:
> Alphons "Fonz" van Werven wrote:
> > Dmitry Kolosov wrote:
> >> Is there a *BSD porting project to MIPS?
> >
> > If by MIPS you mean the Silicon Graphics machines, then yes.
> >
> > FreeBSD has a MIPS port in the works, but as far as I can tell it's still
> > considered highly experimental. However, you may want to help out if you
> > have the time ;-)
> >
> > OpenBSD seems to have limited MIPS support: 64-bit only, so an O2 will
> > work but an Indy probably won't.
> >
> > NetBSD just works. I've had it running on two SGI Indy machines without
> > much of any kind of trouble. But then again, NetBSD runs on just about
> > everything.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Alphons
>
> If instead he means wireless devices with a MIPS based processor like
> the linksys WRT54G or such, they lack a MMU and no BSD will run on them,
> nor are the changes needed to lobotomize BSD enough to run on hardware
> without an MMU trivial.

oh, sounds bad :(