1 MIPS Boston Development Board
7 The MIPS Boston development board is built around an FPGA & 3 PCIe controllers,
8 one of which is connected to an Intel EG20T Platform Controller Hub which
9 provides most connectivity to the board. It is used during the development &
10 testing of both new CPUs and the software support for them. It is essentially
11 the successor of the older MIPS Malta board.
17 U-Boot can be run on a currently out-of-tree branch of QEMU with support for
18 the Boston board added. This QEMU code can currently be found in the "boston"
19 branch of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/paul/qemu.git and used like so:
21 $ git clone git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/paul/qemu.git -b boston
23 $ ./configure --target-list=mips64el-softmmu
25 $ ./mips64el-softmmu/qemu-system-mips64el -M boston -m 2G \
26 -bios u-boot.bin -serial stdio
28 Please note that QEMU will default to emulating the I6400 CPU which implements
29 the MIPS64r6 ISA, and at the time of writing doesn't implement any earlier CPUs
30 with support for the CPS features the Boston board relies upon. You will
31 therefore need to configure U-Boot to build for MIPSr6 in order to obtain a
32 binary that will work in QEMU.
38 If building for MIPSr6 then you will need a toolchain including GCC 5.x or
39 newer, or the Codescape toolchain available for download from Imagination
42 http://codescape-mips-sdk.imgtec.com/components/toolchain/2015.06-05/
44 The "IMG GNU Linux Toolchain" is capable of building for all current MIPS ISAs,
45 architecture revisions & both endiannesses.
53 - Exception handling (+UHI?)
57 - More general LCD display driver
58 - Multi-arch-variant multi-endian fat binary