MIPS seems to be quite widely supported (about as much as PPC64LE) despite that I’m not able to find anything that uses MIPSLE/MIPS64LE. Are they only supported for QEMU or is there anything that still uses it? Do you know of anything to play around with Linux for MIPSLE/MIPS64LE that isn’t emulation?
IIRC, SixOS is built for MIPS systems and runs quite well on them with lots of VERY futuristic options (the most impressive he calls “ownerboot”).
Some older routers use MIPS architecture.
And now that I have made the post I got some search results:
- Routers apparently still use MIPS
- https://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MIPS-HOWTO-3.html has some MIPS systems you can run Linux on.
If you want to share anything about MIPS though please feel free to comment, I would interest me greatly what the rest of you have to say.
I think the phones at my university are MIPS. VoIP phones.
There were two or three MIPS Android tablets long time ag, at the time of Android 5. Now Android does not have MIPS support anymore.
MIPS is special purpose, unlike something like ARM. You’ll find them a lot in carrier-grade comms equipment, electrical, mechanical…etc. They aren’t meant for general consumption.
