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Questions tagged [mips]

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Did Windows ever support any hardware architectures other than x86?

Microsoft Windows Internals, 4th Edition says: The architecture of the Intel x86 processor defines four privilege levels, or rings, to protect system code and data from being overwritten either inadvertently or maliciously by code of lesser …
xiaokaoy
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what is the difference/similarity between MIPS and FLOPS?

I believe both MIPS and FLOPS are metrices for calculating processor speed. What is the difference between them? Are they in any way related or dependent on each other?
open_sourse
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Trying to understand the difference in naming between mipsle and mipsel?

According to this article, mipsel refers to little-endian MIPS. The word mipsel is currently used by Debian and linux-mips wiki. However, Golang refers to the same architecture(I guess) with GOARCH=mipsle. So I was wondering is there any difference…
lz96
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How reliable a measure of relative CPU Performance is MIPs?

I notice no marketing mentions MIPs, and its not mentioned in specifications for processors. How reliable is this statistic? By now we all know more Mhz and Ghz is not necessarily a good direct comparison
Tom J Nowell
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Install Rust for Mips cross-compile in 2025

I would like to install Rust cross-compile to MIPS32 little-endian. It will impress my manager. I looked at several web pages, like cross-compile for wifi pineapple but that is from 2017. How to install Rust for MIPS cross in year 2025 ? I've…
Brian Witt
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What is Bogo MIPS, DMIPS

I have read about bogo on Wikipedia, but could not get clear idea. So what exactly is bogo mips? What does the table of rating and index for bogo mips for different processors mean? Whats a dhrystone MIPS? Its significance. e.g. if some of my code…
goldenmean
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Is the MIPS architecture more related to Harvard or Von Neumann?

I can't seem to figure this out from the related wikipedia pages: Von Neumann architecture MIPS architecture Harvard architecture
JcMaco
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What does cpu MHz mean in /proc/cpuinfo?

I own Quad-core Core i5 laptop. I got curious to know how much time it takes for my laptop to execute a simple instruction. So, I did cat /proc/cpuinfo. Below is the relevant portion of it, model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz cpu…
aamir
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Where to find libc.so.0

I'm running a MIPS image in Qemu and a program I'm trying to run shows that libc.so.0 is not found. Libc.so.6 is found in /lib/mipsel-linux-gnu Does anyone know where I can find libc.so.0 or solve this issue?
user2059300
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MIPS as a measurement of raw integer data processing

I'm looking for a way to contextualize generational differences in computing performance. Is this a correct application of the MIPS measurement? MOS 6502 - 0.500 MIPS at 1 MHz. As an 8-bit CPU it could process a theoretical maximum of 500,000 bytes…
Schmudde
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cross compile gdb server to mips arc

Hi Im trying to crosscompile gdbserver to mips architecture . I'v donwloaded gdb 7-12 and after running configure ./configure --host=mips-linux-gnu Im getting an error Makefile:263: recipe for target 'linux-mips-low.o' failed make: ***…
Slobodan Vidovic
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Newer version of libc6-dev package causes havoc

I have a mips64 machine running Debian Wheezy. GCC compiler installs without any issues, however, linker is having some trouble: apt-get install gcc make gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory A…
Ulrik
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MIPS mount file system

I have a bin file including linux file system (MIPS arch), I want to add/remove/modify some files in this bin file. So I need to mount it with qemu but mount it is a little complicate. This my file details file -k zCore.bin u-boot legacy uImage,…
Black_Syphilis
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What is the difference between Intel (CISC) and ARM (RISC) architecture?

what is the basic difference between Intel (CISC) and ARM (RISC) architecture?
Dzn
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