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 NAA12611; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:41:03 -0800 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id VAA19630 for linux-list; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:40:54 GMT Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA19619 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:40:52 -0800 Received: from alles.intern.julia.de (loehnberg1.core.julia.de [194.221.49.2]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA03811 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:40:46 -0800 Received: from kernel.panic.julia.de (kernel.panic.julia.de [194.221.49.153]) by alles.intern.julia.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA04572; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:39:43 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle Received: (from ralf@localhost) by kernel.panic.julia.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA16621; Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:38:36 +0100 Message-Id: <199703072138.WAA16621@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: Linux/SGI To: miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:38:35 +0100 (MET) Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <199703071951.NAA10311@athena.nuclecu.unam.mx> from "Miguel de Icaza" at Mar 7, 97 01:51:32 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, > This is kind of a test message to see if we are (Ralf and I) are on > the SGI Linux mailing list. > > Ralf and I have joined the Linux/SGI project (he will mail his very > own presentation later). The idea basically is that we will be > getting a machine each one to finish the Linux on SGI port. Thanks for the introduction Miguel; I'd like to use the chance to drop some words about what I'm doing right now on Linux and what the status of this is. As you know David left SGI again in the late August. At that time he had not only completed a good part of the SGI specific stuff but also made a lot of improofments to the generic MIPS parts of the kernel. At that time his kernel was based on Linus' 2.0.14. At the same time I was working mostly independend of him; luckily. My target machines were at that time the good old Magnum 4000 and it's OEM variant M700-10 from Olivetti, the Magnum based Acer PICA machine and SNI's RM200. When Ariel mailed me about working on Linux/SGI my kernel for these machines was based on Linux 2.1.21. It's obvious that our kernels have diverged a good bit from each other and right now I'm working on merging both kernel sources into one single tree again. The second most important part of the system is libc. On MIPS we use the GNU which has the enormous advantage of being far more portable and cleaner code than the Linux Libc on which most Linux/i386 systems are based. Disadvantage is that GNU libc was much buggier than Linux Libc. This has changed a lot and so libc presents itself already quite near to a release (*) libc but there is still some work to do. Similar for the other core parts of the system on which David worked but right now I'm still busy merging the kernel sources; the next step will be libc. Ralf *) famous last words From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199703072138.WAA16621@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: Linux/SGI Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 22:38:35 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199703071951.NAA10311@athena.nuclecu.unam.mx> from "Miguel de Icaza" at Mar 7, 97 01:51:32 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Miguel de Icaza Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970307213835.4lOE8ARjuS24Uerhz_q87z5JxrWmb8olbCt1Sz6LJDI@z> Hello, > This is kind of a test message to see if we are (Ralf and I) are on > the SGI Linux mailing list. > > Ralf and I have joined the Linux/SGI project (he will mail his very > own presentation later). The idea basically is that we will be > getting a machine each one to finish the Linux on SGI port. Thanks for the introduction Miguel; I'd like to use the chance to drop some words about what I'm doing right now on Linux and what the status of this is. As you know David left SGI again in the late August. At that time he had not only completed a good part of the SGI specific stuff but also made a lot of improofments to the generic MIPS parts of the kernel. At that time his kernel was based on Linus' 2.0.14. At the same time I was working mostly independend of him; luckily. My target machines were at that time the good old Magnum 4000 and it's OEM variant M700-10 from Olivetti, the Magnum based Acer PICA machine and SNI's RM200. When Ariel mailed me about working on Linux/SGI my kernel for these machines was based on Linux 2.1.21. It's obvious that our kernels have diverged a good bit from each other and right now I'm working on merging both kernel sources into one single tree again. The second most important part of the system is libc. On MIPS we use the GNU which has the enormous advantage of being far more portable and cleaner code than the Linux Libc on which most Linux/i386 systems are based. Disadvantage is that GNU libc was much buggier than Linux Libc. This has changed a lot and so libc presents itself already quite near to a release (*) libc but there is still some work to do. Similar for the other core parts of the system on which David worked but right now I'm still busy merging the kernel sources; the next step will be libc. Ralf *) famous last words