{"id":734,"date":"2008-12-11T21:36:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=734"},"modified":"2008-12-11T21:39:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:39:11","slug":"fate-on-mips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/fate-on-mips\/","title":{"rendered":"FATE on MIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an interest in testing FFmpeg<\/a> on a wide diversity of platforms via FATE<\/a>. Pursuant to another post of non-x86 architectures<\/a>, I learned that there are MIPS-based Linux laptops in the works.<\/p>\n

I learned that one such laptop is the HiVision miniNote. Another is the Skytone Alpha-400<\/a>. I have also learned that they are pretty much the same and that they go by other names depending on the regions in which they are marketed. However, the Skytone Alpha-400 is something I could order today if I wanted to (Geeks.com<\/a> sells the MIPS Alpha-400 machines<\/a>). And it’s also useful to note that the latest incarnation of the series uses Intel XScale CPUs rather than MIPS derivatives.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Alpha-400 and related laptops really aren’t made for general hacking. Allegedly, someone in .nl has figured out how to get a root prompt, but it would require knowing Netherlish to decode the instructions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the course of the previous discussion, I also learned of the Gdium<\/a> which features a slightly more powerful MIPS CPU. This might make a better platform for FATE testing. There isn’t much information on their site about the possibility of purchasing one, but there is a blog post about their desire to attract open source developers<\/a>. Hey! I’m attracted!<\/em> Perhaps if someone knew someone involved with these products, those people would be interested in performing automated QA for FATE?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I am tweaking the core FATE script to support cross compiling and remote execution of tests. Think of it as phase 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have an interest in testing FFmpeg on a wide diversity of platforms via FATE. Pursuant to another post of non-x86 architectures, I learned that there are MIPS-based Linux laptops in the works. I learned that one such laptop is the HiVision miniNote. Another is the Skytone Alpha-400. I have also learned that they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[108,113,111,112],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fate-server","tag-fate","tag-gdium","tag-mips","tag-skytone-alpha-400"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t