From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA27146 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:17:39 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA76174 for linux-list; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:41 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from mailbox.esd.sgi.com (mailbox.esd.sgi.com [130.62.72.15]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id TAA81137; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:36 -0800 (PST) mail_from (kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com) Received: by mailbox.esd.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id TAA91244; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com (Ken Klingman) Message-Id: <199812060316.TAA91244@mailbox.esd.sgi.com> Subject: Re: SGI joins linux internationalt To: wje@fir.engr.sgi.com (William J. Earl) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: anderson@more.net, wje@fir.engr.sgi.com, adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Dec 4, 98 02:33:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > 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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: kck@mailbox.esd.sgi.com (Ken Klingman) Message-ID: <199812060316.TAA91244@mailbox.esd.sgi.com> Subject: Re: SGI joins linux internationalt Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:16:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <199812042233.OAA19757@fir.engr.sgi.com> from "William J. Earl" at Dec 4, 98 02:33:03 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: "William J. Earl" Cc: anderson@more.net, adevries@engsoc.carleton.ca, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19981206031620.X10XwcLkHZmTXxbvyCk3Z5CSrJxgfZNyCEEmeNSo43g@z> > > 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