From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:09:07 -0800 Received: from pneumatic-tube.sgi.com ([204.94.214.22]:14858 "EHLO pneumatic-tube.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:08:50 -0800 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by pneumatic-tube.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id NAA05756; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:12:27 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com) Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA07118 for linux-list; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:00:31 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA15880 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:00:19 -0800 (PST) mail_from (kevink@mips.com) Received: from mx.mips.com (mx.mips.com [206.31.31.226]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id NAA00341 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:00:18 -0800 (PST) mail_from (kevink@mips.com) Received: from newman.mips.com (newman [206.31.31.8]) by mx.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA26511; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from satanas (satanas [192.168.236.12]) by newman.mips.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA11449; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 13:00:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <013201bf982f$fdf092f0$0ceca8c0@satanas.mips.com> From: "Kevin D. Kissell" To: "Linux/MIPS fnet" , "Linux/MIPS algor" , "Linux SGI" Subject: Linux now availabile on MIPS Technologies FTP Server Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 23:03:59 +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 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-linuxmips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linuxmips-outgoing The semi-induistrialized 2.2.12 MIPS kernel from MIPS Technologies and a set of userland installation facilities are at long last available by anonymous FTP from the MIPS Technologies server at ftp://ftp.mips.com under /pub/linux/mips. The www.paralogos.com/mipslinux site has been updated with some explanations and links to specific subdirectories. As with the earlier snapshot I made available on the Paralogos server, one can download the full set of sources, or a patch file relative to the kernel.org 2.2.12 release. I also generated a patch file between the previous snapshot ("01.01") and the current code ("01.04"). The major changes between the two are in the kernel interfaces to the Algorithmics FPU emulator, which are now potentially SMP-safe (untested), more R3000-friendly, and if configured, the full emulator is used instead of the old softfp asm hack to handle unimplemented FP operations. There are also minor changes to fix a few bugs found in the course of torture-testing, etc. The other thing that may be of interest on the site is the genericised NFS install root archives for both big and little-endian platforms. These were set up for the MIPS Atlas development board, but should work equally well on Algorithmics or other MIPS development boards with serial ports, ethernet interfaces, and a hard disk controller. They were derived from the Indy install kit on the SGI site, but with the SGI dependencies removed. Well, almost removed - the big-endian fdisk program will only work if the kernel has EFS configured. :-(. Even compressed, these are huge files (250MB or so), but at least they are available. Instructions can be found in the FTP directory or on the www.paralogos.com site. __ Kevin D. Kissell MIPS Technologies European Architecture Lab kevink@mips.com Tel. +33.4.78.38.70.67 FAX. +33.4.78.38.70.68