From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA14045; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:08 -0700 Return-Path: Received: by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/911001.SGI) for linux-list id KAA17325; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:04 -0700 Received: from neteng.engr.sgi.com by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com via ESMTP (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/911001.SGI) for id KAA17320; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:23:02 -0700 Received: from localhost (lm@localhost) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id KAA13743; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:22:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199604231722.KAA13743@neteng.engr.sgi.com> To: "Greg Chesson" From: lm@gate1-neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) cc: "Alistair Lambie" , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: MIPS port kickoff meeting Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:22:54 -0700 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Greg said: : There are US Gov't customers for Linux on SGI boxes who require : 64-bit OS. So, let's support tho 32-bit ARCS boxes without compromising : opportunities to sell new boxes (with 64-bit Linux). We definitely want to do this. And I don't want to do anything to derail this because I want this badly. And what I'm about to say does not imply that we don't do 64bit - I want both. And it should be easy to do both. One reason for thinking small, however, is that we could finesse the whole Linux vs IRIX issue by raising awareness that Linux on MIPs could be a really nice solution for the embedded market. I personally would love to see a full page in IEEE times in which MIPS announces the availablity of embedded Linux for MIPs chips. This may be the quickest path to getting Linux embraced internally. I'm pretty sure that Cygnus would be interested in signing up for support for such a platform - that is a big part of their business. And I think that R3K is still the volume chip in the embedded market, so we want that to work. Thoughts?