As I mentioned in passing yesterday I have a MIPS Creator CI20. It’s a tiny single board dual core 32 bit MIPS computer. The cost was £55 including tax and delivery.
It comes with Debian mipsel pre-installed, so all I had to do was boot it the first time with an HDMI monitor and keyboard, configure the WLAN, disable the autologin, reboot and done: I have a tiny MIPS server.
One tip: The hardware clock was way off, so installing NTP at the earliest opportunity is a good idea.
The hardware isn’t going to win any prizes for speed, but it’s quite adequate for development. /proc/cpuinfo is attached at the end.
Also I think Imagination have done a good job seeding the community, setting up a mailing list, IRC, and very extensive wiki pages.
Update: Also, no native OCaml compiler … boo 😦
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : CI20 processor : 0 cpu model : Ingenic Xburst V4.15 FPU V0.0 BogoMIPS : 1196.85 wait instruction : yes microsecond timers : no tlb_entries : 32 extra interrupt vector : yes hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 1, address/irw mask: [0x0fff] microMIPS : no ASEs implemented : mxu shadow register sets : 1 kscratch registers : 0 core : 0 VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available Hardware : CI20 Serial : 6f1b2731 1181a003 f9080000 8861aa4f processor : 1 cpu model : Ingenic Xburst V4.15 FPU V0.0 BogoMIPS : 1196.85 wait instruction : yes microsecond timers : no tlb_entries : 32 extra interrupt vector : yes hardware watchpoint : yes, count: 1, address/irw mask: [0x0fff] microMIPS : no ASEs implemented : mxu shadow register sets : 1 kscratch registers : 0 core : 0 VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available Hardware : CI20 Serial : 6f1b2731 1181a003 f9080000 8861aa4f
Richard WM Jones 