From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:44:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from mx2.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:206.31.31.227]:13218 "EHLO mx2.mips.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:44:05 +0100 Received: from newman.mips.com (ns-dmz [206.31.31.225]) by mx2.mips.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3OLhpUe019581; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grendel (grendel [192.168.236.16]) by newman.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA03757; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <011a01c30aab$b7748ce0$10eca8c0@grendel> From: "Kevin D. Kissell" To: "Chip Coldwell" , References: Subject: Re: NCD900 port? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:51:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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: 2181 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: kevink@mips.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips > I'm facing a ~$1K site license charge for NCD's NCBridge software for > their NC948 X Terminals, and since my site consists of exactly three > of these things that I bought for less than $250 each I'm balking a > bit. > > The NC948 consists of a 165 MHz QED RM5231, S3 Savage4 graphics > controller, and an AMD PCnet NIC of some sort. It doesn't seem like > there's anything in that set that Linux or XFree86 wouldn't be happy > to run. What PCI bridge is being used? Galileo? > To be completely explicit what I'm proposing is to run Linux on the X > Terminal (as opposed to the server that provides boot image, xdm, > etc.). My question is: has anybody done it or does anybody know a > reason why it can't be done? I think it's probably doable, but if you want two reasons why it might not be, I'd say they would be: 1) Undocumented/unsupported PCI or other interface 2) Not enough RAM From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <011a01c30aab$b7748ce0$10eca8c0@grendel> From: "Kevin D. Kissell" References: Subject: Re: NCD900 port? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:51:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org To: Chip Coldwell , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Message-ID: <20030424215141.cBdaqC_YWImF_Ow7reeial9m-xNitgufhiWrHtXmGto@z> > I'm facing a ~$1K site license charge for NCD's NCBridge software for > their NC948 X Terminals, and since my site consists of exactly three > of these things that I bought for less than $250 each I'm balking a > bit. > > The NC948 consists of a 165 MHz QED RM5231, S3 Savage4 graphics > controller, and an AMD PCnet NIC of some sort. It doesn't seem like > there's anything in that set that Linux or XFree86 wouldn't be happy > to run. What PCI bridge is being used? Galileo? > To be completely explicit what I'm proposing is to run Linux on the X > Terminal (as opposed to the server that provides boot image, xdm, > etc.). My question is: has anybody done it or does anybody know a > reason why it can't be done? I think it's probably doable, but if you want two reasons why it might not be, I'd say they would be: 1) Undocumented/unsupported PCI or other interface 2) Not enough RAM