Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[Nicholas Harring]

Hi all,
I have a question which, while partially addressed in the HOWTO, I 
wanted to ask here to determine if the HOWTO is 100% up to date.
I recently acquired an NEC RISCServer 4200 with four Mips R4400 cpus. Is 
this machine still completely unsupported, or is there work ongoing into 
getting it to boot
with four cpus?
If there is work ongoing, please contact me as I'd love to volunteer my 
machine and time to help test and so on.
Thanks in advance,
Nick Harring

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[Ralf Baechle]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 06:59:10PM -0600, Nicholas Harring wrote:

> I have a question which, while partially addressed in the HOWTO, I 
> wanted to ask here to determine if the HOWTO is 100% up to date.
> I recently acquired an NEC RISCServer 4200 with four Mips R4400 cpus. Is 
> this machine still completely unsupported, or is there work ongoing into 
> getting it to boot
> with four cpus?
> If there is work ongoing, please contact me as I'd love to volunteer my 
> machine and time to help test and so on.

We have no information at all about the NEC hardware.  As the group that
built NEC's systems does no longer exist reverse engineering seems to be
the only way to ever support NEC systems.

  Ralf

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20020106191256.A2418@dea.linux-mips.net>
            Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> writes:
: We have no information at all about the NEC hardware.  As the group that
: built NEC's systems does no longer exist reverse engineering seems to be
: the only way to ever support NEC systems.

There are some Japanese engineers that might know, but they are kind
of a rough crowd to break into :-)

Warner

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:22:42PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> : We have no information at all about the NEC hardware.  As the group that
> : built NEC's systems does no longer exist reverse engineering seems to be
> : the only way to ever support NEC systems.
> 
> There are some Japanese engineers that might know, but they are kind
> of a rough crowd to break into :-)

Maybe you should talk to them over a crate of Saporro :-)

  Ralf

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20020107012837.A30485@dea.linux-mips.net>
            Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> writes:
: Maybe you should talk to them over a crate of Saporro :-)

Next time I go to Japan, I may have to try to do just that :-)
Except, they'd likely want some kind of good saki.  I know that they
are doing NetBSD/arc right now with those machines.  I saw one NEC
machine for sale at a junk shop in Akihabara last time I was there.
Too bad it weighed too much for me to ship it home :-)

Warner

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:44:11PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> Next time I go to Japan, I may have to try to do just that :-)
> Except, they'd likely want some kind of good saki.  I know that they
> are doing NetBSD/arc right now with those machines.  I saw one NEC
> machine for sale at a junk shop in Akihabara last time I was there.
> Too bad it weighed too much for me to ship it home :-)

I thought shipping sports equipment is free when traveling ;-)

  Ralf

Re: Question about SMP NEC RISCServer

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20020107014622.A30647@dea.linux-mips.net>
            Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> writes:
: I thought shipping sports equipment is free when traveling ;-)

Well, all the other stuff put me too close to my weight limit.  I also
couldn't imagine taking it on the subway back to my hotel...

Warner