On Wednesday 12. October 2016 15.23.00 Matt Campbell wrote:
Luke, I'm surprised you're interested in the Ingenic SoCs again. I thought you had given up on them because there aren't any current libre distros for the MIPS architecture. Has anything changed in that regard?
Luke mentioned the M150 in the context of a video camera, but my impression was not that it would be the SoC in an actual EOMA68 card, but rather that it would be part of the actual camera hardware itself. The product page indicates "Embedded 128MB LPDDR" for the M150:
http://www.ingenic.com/en/?product/id/12.html
Just that part as is would make for a nice upgrade to the jz4720 used in the Ben NanoNote. :-)
It would be interesting to know what the "GPU" is in the related M200 products, however, and whether it is anything supportable in future. Those products have one "fast" (1.2GHz) and one "slow" (300MHz) core and support for external RAM.
On the topic of distros, gNewSense did support mipsel for the Loongson hardware, but it seems unlikely that this support will continue without suitable hardware (without proprietary firmware requirements, of course) being made available. So we have a chicken and egg problem! Of course, Debian still supports mipsel, so the issue is nothing to do with general software availability.
Paul