On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:18:40PM +0530, Krishna B S wrote: > I have to develop toolchains for various MIPS boards my company > develops. All the boards consist of MIPS 4KC. > > I would like to know from you what is the most popular board used by > the community with this kind of processor. I know, its tough to get a > clear answer. > > But, my intention is to first port my toolchain/kernel for this > popular board so that I can get your support, in case I encounter any > problems. Having confirmed the working of the toolchain for this > board, I would port it to my company's boards. > > (The popular board in the community would be my reference board for > development.) The price tag is juicy but for serious development with a 4Kc I'd recommend a MIPS Malta. Forcing consumer hardware into submission may be a fun project for a spare time hacker but in general isn't a very productive process for somebody who needs to finish a job soon or needs to additional hardware such as PCI cards, logic analyzer, additional memory, other CPU types etc. Ralf