From: kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com (Ken Klingman)
To: wje@fir.engr.sgi.com (William J. Earl)
Cc: anderson@more.net, wje@fir.engr.sgi.com,
adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SGI joins linux internationalt
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812060316.TAA91244@mailbox.esd.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Dec 4, 98 02:33:03 pm
>
> Eric L. Anderson writes:
> > "William J. Earl" wrote:
> > >
> > > I am working on getting authorization to release more documentation,
> > > as well as fragments of hardware management software and, if possible,
> > > downloadable graphics firmware for those cards which require firmware.
> > > I have agreement in principle, but I need to get agreement on the complete
> > > list of items to be released.
> >
> > Does the "list of items" include the VPC video hardware? It would be
> > great to see SGI support Linux as an alternative OS for the VPC.
>
> I don't think I can comment on the VPC right now.
>
We are working on incorporating support for the new workstation
products into the standard LInux distributions. However, there
are issues with both graphics and digital media that make it
difficult to release details about the hardware implementation
and interfaces.
Ken Klingman
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com (Ken Klingman)
To: "William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: anderson@more.net, adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca,
linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: SGI joins linux internationalt
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199812060316.TAA91244@mailbox.esd.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19981206031620.X10XwcLkHZmTXxbvyCk3Z5CSrJxgfZNyCEEmeNSo43g@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Dec 4, 98 02:33:03 pm
>
> Eric L. Anderson writes:
> > "William J. Earl" wrote:
> > >
> > > I am working on getting authorization to release more documentation,
> > > as well as fragments of hardware management software and, if possible,
> > > downloadable graphics firmware for those cards which require firmware.
> > > I have agreement in principle, but I need to get agreement on the complete
> > > list of items to be released.
> >
> > Does the "list of items" include the VPC video hardware? It would be
> > great to see SGI support Linux as an alternative OS for the VPC.
>
> I don't think I can comment on the VPC right now.
>
We are working on incorporating support for the new workstation
products into the standard LInux distributions. However, there
are issues with both graphics and digital media that make it
difficult to release details about the hardware implementation
and interfaces.
Ken Klingman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-06 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-04 19:04 SGI joins linux international Ariel Faigon
1998-12-04 19:04 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-12-04 20:42 ` Alex deVries
1998-12-04 21:40 ` Eric Kimminau
1998-12-04 21:59 ` William J. Earl
1998-12-04 22:30 ` Eric L. Anderson
1998-12-04 22:33 ` William J. Earl
1998-12-06 3:16 ` Ken Klingman [this message]
1998-12-06 3:16 ` SGI joins linux internationalt Ken Klingman
1998-12-06 5:36 ` SGI joins linux international ralf
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