From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:42:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pD9562327.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:217.86.35.39]:64557 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:42:13 +0000 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iAOMg9Zj025220; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:42:09 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iAOMg4Zq025219; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:42:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:42:04 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-vax@mithra.physics.montana.edu, Wolfgang Rupp Subject: Re: DECsystem 5500 available (fwd) Message-ID: <20041124224204.GC22439@linux-mips.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6448 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > We may be interested in getting this system to add Linux support. It is > quite rare and despite having an R3000 processor as its main computational > unit it actually has a VAX processor as well, which is used for executing > diagnostics. There is some programming-level documentation available -- > much enough I think a port should be moderately easy, at least from the > hardware point of view. Code may require major surgery here and there, > though. > > I'd take the system myself as it would be a good check for portability of > code, but it's out of reach for me at the moment. As long as I won't have to learn VAX assembler ;-) Ralf