Debian on &arch-title; currently supports three subarchitectures: DECstation: various models of the DECstation are supported. Cobalt Microserver: only MIPS based Cobalt machines are covered here. This includes the Cobalt Qube 2700 (Qube1), RaQ, Qube2 and RaQ2, and the Gateway Microserver. Broadcom BCM91250A (SWARM): this is an ATX form factor evaluation board from Broadcom based on their SiByte processor family. Complete information regarding supported mips/mipsel 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. Currently only DECstations with R3000 and R4000/R4400 CPUs are supported by the Debian installation system on little endian MIPS. The Debian installation system works on the following machines: System TypeCPUCode-name Debian subarchitecture DECstation 5000/1xx R3000 3MIN r3k-kn02 DECstation 5000/150 R4000 3MIN r4k-kn04 DECstation 5000/200 R3000 3MAX r3k-kn02 DECstation 5000/240 R3000 3MAX+ r3k-kn02 DECstation 5000/260 R4400 3MAX+ r4k-kn04 Personal DECstation 5000/xx R3000 Maxine r3k-kn02 Personal DECstation 5000/50 R4000 Maxine r4k-kn04 All Cobalt machines are supported. In the past, only machines with a serial console were supported (that is, all machines except for the Qube 2700, aka Qube1). However, installations are now also possible through SSH. The Broadcom BCM91250A evaluation board comes with an SB1250 chip with two SB-1 cores which are supported in SMP mode by this installer. Serial console is available on all supported DECstations (9600 bps, 8N1). For using serial console, you have to boot the installer image with the console=ttySx kernel parameter (with x being the number of the serial port you have your terminal connected to — usually 2, but 0 for the Personal DECstations). On 3MIN and 3MAX+ (DECstation 5000/1xx, 5000/240 and 5000/260) local console is available with the PMAG-BA and the PMAGB-B graphics options. If you have a Linux system to use as serial terminal, an easy way is to run cu In Woody this command was part of the uucp package, but in later releases it is available as a separate package. on it. Example: $ cu -l /dev/ttyS1 -s 9600 where the option -l (line) sets the serial port to use and -s (speed) sets the speed for the connection (9600 bits per second). Both Cobalt and Broadcom BCM91250A use 115200 bps.