It is widely advertised as a 400Mhz processor, even by Elonex, but it
isn't. On MIPS architecture BogoMIPS are the same as Mhz and it is doing
335.05 bogoMIPS.
/proc/cpuinfo
system type : JzRISC
processor : 0
cpu model : V4.15
BogoMIPS : 335.05
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 32
extra interrupt vector : yes
hardware watchpoint : yes
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available
It implements the MIPS instruction set except for the floating point
unit, but it is not a MIPS processor made by MIPS Inc. it is an Xburst
processor made by Ingenic
http://www.ingenic.cn/eng/productServ/XBurst/pfCustomPage.aspx in the
same way that an AMD processor is not an Intel processor. There is a
custom toolchain to compile stuff for it in theory. In practice I can't
do a damn thing with it as I can't get to a console. I think that you
will be able to get the same thing from elsewhere for about £50 cheaper
than the Novatech in the not too distant future.
Any suggestions on how to reflash it with something like a Debian for
MIPS would be gratefully received.
Alan.
alan c wrote:
> Mike Dwerryhouse wrote:
>> The latest Novatech email flyer has yet another Linux based mini
>> notebook:
>>
>> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-MINIBK
>>
>> It doesn't turn up in the Laptops page, it's under Laptop
>> Accessories, on about
>> the fourth page. The price is £169.99
>>
>> It doesn't say what version of Linux. Maybe someone recognises it as
>> a re-brand
>> of something else.
>
> looks similar to
> http://www.pcretailmag.com/news/30256/65-laptop-launched
> if so, then:
>
> from another list I read: a comment from someone:
> ==================
> Its a 400 MHz MIPS processor, not an x86. I have a 450MHz MIPS that runs
> reasonably well as a server (Cobalt Qube 2) with 128MB RAM. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_architecture for MIPS processors.
> ==================
>
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