Re: cheap 8-core ARM board

[Christian Baer <christian.baer%uni-dortmund.de@localhost>]

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On 11/21/16 17:27, Alexander Schreiber wrote:

> Well, one of the faster MIPS systems I'm currently running are the 
> Ubiquity Networks Edgerouter Lite 3 (Erlite3 for short). Dual core 
> 500 MHz MIPS64, 512 MB RAM, 3x GBit, Cisco style serial console 
> connector, OS on internal USB stick (so trivially replaced). No 
> graphics of course, so not a workstation replacement. Works
> splendidly with mainline Linux as router & gateway, experiments
> with NetBSD showed _severe_ breakage, unfortunately.

"Faster" is relative. 512MB isn't all that much for a 64bit computer.
And unless I've missed something about MIPS doing *significantly* more
OPs per cycle than ARM, 2 cores @500MHz isn't really blazingly fast
either - certainly not on par with a PI3.

I have noticed that a lot is moving away from MIPS. Not too long ago
it was the standard architecture in routers (the better ones anyway).
Most of the routers that worked with OpenWRT or DD-WRT were MIPS
based. I took a look at the current routers out there that will work
with OpenWRT. The new and fast ones are all ARM based. That isn't
necessarily a bad thing but it noticeable. At the same time, the
Chinese are making laptops with MIPS CPUs.

Regards,
Chris
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