T2/MIPS and Imagination Tech.

[René Rebe]

Hi all,

hardware donations are always welcome, and thus I do like to publicly thank Imagination for sending a “high performance” dual-core MIPS32 board with PowerVR SGX540 GPU to me.

Some decade ago I did initial MIPS work on Sgi hardware, like the Octane:

http://www.t2-project.org/hardware/workstation/Sgi/Octane/

Of course this board is (hopefully) faster, consumes way less energy, and is also lighter (the Octane has a steel body, and weights some good 20kg - it was a pain to carry during our recent office move - beside it’s internal compression connectors are prone to dust, sigh).

So thanks again to Imagination, I will for sure have some fun with the board, T2/MIPS patches assured.

http://store.imgtec.com/product/mips-creator-ci20/

Greetings from Berlin,

René