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7. Web resources

7.1 Webservers

The following webservers are relevant for Linux/MIPS developers.

http://www.linux-mips.org/

This server covers most of Linux/MIPS. If you need something chances are it's already there.

http://www.mips.com/content/Products/SoftwareTools/

This sites has MIPS own version of Linux/MIPS based distributions and tools for their processors and evaluation boards.

http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/

This is Debian's MIPS/Linux site.

http://www.playstation2-linux.com

This is Sony's Linux/MIPS server for the Playstation 2. Also in Japanese.

http://www.ltc.com/~brad/mips/mips-cross-toolchain/

Bradley D. LaRonde's HowTo on building a cross toolchain for MIPS/Linux.

http://linux.junsun.net/porting-howto/

Jun Sun's porting guide has some useful information and tips for porting to new platforms.

7.2 Anonymous FTP servers.

The primary anonymous FTP servers for Linux/MIPS are

ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org

This server should satisfy almost all of your Linux/MIPS related ftp desires. Really.

ftp://ftp.mips.com/pub/linux

This is the server of MIPS, Inc. itself. Among other things it offers a recent Redhat-based distribution and a support area for MIPS' evaluation boards.

ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/

Maciej W. Rozycki's FTP server.

7.3 The Linux-VR project

The Linux VR project has worked on support for a variety of NEC VR41xx, Toshiba TMPR39xx and Philips PR3170-based systems. Most of this code has been merged into the Linux/MIPS CVS tree. The projects web pages which used to be at www.linux-vr.org are now archived at http://www.linux-mips.org/linux-vr/.

The Linux-VR CVS archive is at http://www.linux-mips.org/cvsweb/linux-vr; it can also be checked out by CVS.


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