<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>You are right, the machine (</span><a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/560/specs.html">http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/560/specs.html</a>) doesn't have a MIPS processor, but an IBM's Power6.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, does anyone know which Linux distribution runs on that machine?, can FPC be compiled to run on it?.</div><div> </div><div>Leonardo M. Ramé<br>http://leonardorame.blogspot.com<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b>
"microcode@zoho.com" <microcode@zoho.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [fpc-devel] progress of freepascal for mips<br> </font> </div> <br>
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 07:04:24 -0700 (PDT)<br>Leonardo M. Ramé <<a ymailto="mailto:martinrame@yahoo.com" href="mailto:martinrame@yahoo.com">martinrame@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> Hi, while this interesting discussion about fpc for Linux/MIPS is<br>> evolving, we've received an IBM Mips server from a customer (I don't know<br>> the model yet) to try to install an hypervisor. <br><br>Sorry if this has already been answered but I have tons of mail and haven't<br>read them all yet.<br><br>I am near certain IBM doesn't make any MIPS hardware at all and never has<br>in their history. In the past they've made all sorts of odd things but at<br>the moment all they make is Intel and POWER servers, as far as servers go.<br>MIPS in IBM-speak is "millions of instructions per second" which is how<br>they describe mainframe performance since they don't publish clock speeds.<br><br>> We need to run at least Windows and Linux
servers on it. Do you know if<br>> Xen/VMWare or similar hypervisors run on this architecture?.<br><br>AFAIK, as far as Windows, nothing but Windows CE (not XP, 7, Vista etc) runs<br>on MIPS and I don't think Windows CE will run on server hardware. And all of<br>the virtualization options available are Intel-only except for Oracle's<br>SPARC VM, so no, you don't have any virtualization options except for<br>perhaps QEMU, but so does everyone who has an Intel box, so there isn't<br>anything to offer via virtualization.<br><br>> If I can install an hypervisor, I could create one virtual machine to let<br>> the FPC team test the MIPS version on this machine, it can be online 24/7.<br><br>Virtualization is thin to none on anything but Intel hardware. But there is<br>QEMU and it provides support for various architectures including MIPS. If<br>you install Linux on your MIPS server (if it really is a MIPS server, which<br>I don't think it is, or if it
is, it isn't IBM) you can use QEMU like Fuxin<br>Zhang wrote he was using, but then so can everyone else who has an Intel box<br>(everybody) so I don't think it's going to be very helpful.<br><br>And the guy working on fpc on MIPS, Fuxin, is working for a MIPS<br>manufacturer so I would guess he has all the hardware he needs ;-)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>fpc-devel maillist - <a ymailto="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org" href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org</a><br>http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel<br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>