Indigo2

Indigo2

[Luke A. Guest]

Hi,

I'm considering buying an (purple) Indigo2 and was wondering what kind of 
help I could get regarding the hardware of this machine? Would it be possible 
to liaise with people at SGI for the relevant information?

I *have* read the archives and I know that I2's only boot via serial console 
at the moment, but I would like to try and get something else working as I 
want some experience with MIPS and this seems to be the best way forward.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Luke A. Guest

P.S: Any buying advice would also be appreciated ;-)

indigo2

[Pete Popov]

Does anyone know where I can get hardware documentation for the Indigo2?
I'm interested in the hardware memory map and what's on the board
itself, such as ethernet controller, the serial ports, rtc, etc.

Thanks,

Pete

Re: indigo2

[Florian Lohoff]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:52:26PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can get hardware documentation for the Indigo2?
> I'm interested in the hardware memory map and what's on the board
> itself, such as ethernet controller, the serial ports, rtc, etc.

Most of the stuff from the Indy should be true also. It should also
be reconstructable from the Kernel source - AFAIK there is no documentation
available for the Indigo2.

Flo
-- 
Florian Lohoff		flo@rfc822.org		      	+49-5201-669912
      "Write only memory - Oops. Time for my medication again ..."

Re: indigo2

[Brent Casavant]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:52:26PM -0700, Pete Popov wrote:
> > Does anyone know where I can get hardware documentation for the Indigo2?
> > I'm interested in the hardware memory map and what's on the board
> > itself, such as ethernet controller, the serial ports, rtc, etc.
> 
> Most of the stuff from the Indy should be true also. It should also
> be reconstructable from the Kernel source - AFAIK there is no documentation
> available for the Indigo2.

There are quite a few Indy documents available at:

	ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/doc/indy/

I've been led to believe that Indigo^2 and Indy are close enough to
eachother that this sort of documentation may be all you need.

Hope that helps,
Brent

-- 
Brent Casavant            bcasavan@sgi.com
Kernel Engineer           http://reality.sgi.com/bcasavan
Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Re: indigo2

[Alex deVries]

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Andrew R. Baker wrote:
> Any information people have collected that may help us in this effort
> would be much appreciated.  And I'm sure you all will be hearing more from
> us in the future.

That's so cool.  The first thing that pops into my mind is:

We've heard recently from SGI that they're not going to releasee docs for
indigo2.  How do you intend to get around this, or is this in fact not
true?

I'll do whatever I can to help.

- Alex

indigo2 extreme

[Mike Shaver]

So I've got a decent deal on an indigo2[*] with the extreme kit lined
up, and I'm wondering how much I'll regret it if I go ahead and purchase
it.  Will I live to see it run Linux?  Will I be able to use the x86
EISA code to get started?

[*] R4400 @ 200 MHz, 80 MB RAM, 1GB drive, SCSI floppy, internal zip
drive, 20" monitor, $1250 US + shipping.  Good deal?

Mike

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121025.89 101644.27

indigo2

[Andrew R. Baker]

This is a somewhat official announcement about work being done to port
Linux to the Indigo2.  

Here at UAB, we have received a grant from SGI to implement a Beowulf
cluster out of a group of Indigo2 machines.  As part of this project, we
will be porting the Linux kernel to the Indigo2.  The current status of
the project is that we are unpacking boxes and setting up the systems.
We received a collection of Indigo2 High Impacts, Extremes, and XZs, all
with (2) 2Gig drives and 128MB RAM.  The people involved with this project
here at UAB are myself (a graduate student and campus network analyst),
Mark Zottola (Adjunctssociate Professor of Computer Science and
supercomputer analyst), and Bob Hyatt (Associate Professor of Computer
Science).  

Any information people have collected that may help us in this effort
would be much appreciated.  And I'm sure you all will be hearing more from
us in the future.

Andrew and Mark 

(hehe I'm special so my name came first....)