M. Warner Losh, an overview of FreeBSD / MIPS asiabsdcon2009: FreeBSD board has been to expand its scope in recent years. Although recently committed to the tree, the history of the FreeBSD / MIPS port of the back over a decade. FreeBSD has been executed on the MIPS architecture from the 3 FreeBSD. time x (1999!). Many efforts over the years have been made to get FreeBSD running on MIPS hardware. These efforts do not start from scratch but reuse of past efforts and code from other systems. Recently, these efforts have met, resulting in support for FreeBSD MIPS 8. 0. The same currents that caused the freebsd / MIPS port to meet after many years have also been pushing the development of other areas important to the embedded world. A number of new features found only in embedded systems have been added to FreeBSD. Hardware vendors are beginning to finance improvement projects for FreeBSD (most of their equipment). improved construction system made it easier to deploy in smaller footprints FreeBSD. All these changes have made a FreeBSD platform more viable board.