Platforms supported by the
&debian; &architecture; port
&debian; on &arch-title; supports the following platforms:
Cavium Octeon
Cavium designs a range of 64-bit MIPS Octeon processors which are
mainly used in networking devices. Devices with these processors
include the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter and the Rhino Labs UTM8.
Loongson 3
Devices based on the Loongson 3A and 3B processors are supported.
MIPS Malta
This platform is emulated by QEMU and is therefore a nice way
to test and run &debian; on MIPS if you don't have the hardware.
There are two Malta kernel flavours: 4kc-malta is built for 32-bit
processors, and 5kc-malta is built for 64-bit processors.
In addition, other boards which contain MIPS32r2
or MIPS64r2 based processors should also be able to run &debian;,
however kernels for these processors are not built and the &debian;
installer does not directly support them.
Complete information regarding supported mips/mipsel/mips64el machines can be found
at the Linux-MIPS homepage. In the
following, only the systems supported by the &debian; installer will be
covered. If you are looking for support for other subarchitectures, please
contact the
debian-&arch-listname; mailing list.
CPU
Some MIPS machines can be operated in both big and little endian mode.
For little endian MIPS, please read the documentation for the mipsel and
mips64el architectures.
For big endian MIPS, please read the documentation for the mips architecture.
Platforms no longer supported by the &debian; &architecture; port
Since &debian; Stretch, support for all MIPS processors which do not
implement MIPS32 Release 2 have been dropped. Therefore the following
platforms supported in Jessie are no longer supported:
Loongson 2E and 2F
These are the older Loongson processors. Devices based on them
include the Fuloong Mini-PC and the Lemote Yeeloong laptop.
SGI IP22
This platform includes the SGI machines Indy, Indigo 2 and Challenge S.
SGI IP32
This platform is generally known as SGI O2.
Broadcom BCM91250
Development board for Broadcom's SiByte core. Also known by its
codename SWARM.