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 OAA69202 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:09:18 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA17723 for linux-list; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:08:09 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from oz.engr.sgi.com (oz.engr.sgi.com [150.166.42.13]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id OAA74448; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from ariel@localhost) by oz.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA31331; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) From: ariel@oz.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199903262208.OAA31331@oz.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: Port to R3000 Indigo To: flynnt@acm.org Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:08:06 -0800 (PST) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <9903261648250V.04692@vulture> from "tom" at Mar 26, 99 04:46:20 pm Reply-To: ariel@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk As Linus use to say: talk is cheap, show me the code... ;-) It won't happen by itself, only if someone devotes serious time to it. My personal feeling is that Linux on R3000 will not happen (there are cheaper and faster old pentium 90's out there) but if someone builds it... I've been wrong before. : :And I know a group at KSC that's getting rid of a bunch of O2s. We'd love to :grab them and make a nice little Beowulf cluster out of them :-). :Unfortunately, we don't have the time at work to do a port :-( : :> I think it would be very relevant. My company recently sold around 30 :> of the R3000 Indigo's. Just about every person who bought one of these :> was interested in the SGI/Linux project and wanted to know if they would :> some day be able to run Linux on it. :> -- Peace, Ariel