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From: "Fernando D. Mato Mira" <matomira@acm.org>
To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XZ
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:44:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199810190644.IAA17078@link.csem.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199810190015.RAA15185@fir.engr.sgi.com>

At 05:15 PM 10/18/98 -0700, you wrote:
>    XZ is one of the variants of the Elan/Extreme series of cards,
>which have one or more geometry engines on the card.  The geometry
>engines need microcode downloaded for full functionality, and the
>interfaces are not externally documented, so it is hard to build
>linux support without access to the IRIX source for reference.

What about just getting the console running (no X server)?
How do GR2 (Indigo Elan) and GR3 (Indigo II Elan) differ in terms of
programming?



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  reply	other threads:[~1998-10-19  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-15 20:50 Partial Success Report Jeff Coffin
1998-10-15 22:17 ` Ulf Carlsson
1998-10-15 23:46   ` Jeff Coffin
1998-10-16 19:46     ` Ulf Carlsson
1998-10-17  1:15       ` XZ Jeremy John Welling
1998-10-17  9:17         ` XZ Thomas Bogendoerfer
1998-10-17 23:56           ` XZ ralf
1998-10-18 17:32             ` XZ George Kyriazis
1998-10-18 23:10               ` XZ ralf
1998-10-19  0:15             ` XZ William J. Earl
1998-10-19  6:44               ` Fernando D. Mato Mira [this message]
1998-10-19 19:53                 ` XZ George Kyriazis
1998-10-19 19:53                   ` XZ George Kyriazis
1998-10-20  1:41                   ` XZ ralf
1998-10-17  2:01       ` Partial Success Report ralf
1998-10-18  0:09         ` Ulf Carlsson
1998-10-19  0:15           ` William J. Earl
1998-10-19  0:13         ` William J. Earl
1998-10-17  9:16 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer

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