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 (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id XAA59615 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id XAA16007 for linux-list; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:44:20 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.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 XAA62125 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:44:18 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (matomira@acm.org) Received: from link.csem.ch (link.csemne.ch [138.131.145.25]) by sgi.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 XAA02102 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:44:16 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (matomira@acm.org) Received: from exchsrv.csem.ch by link.csem.ch; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:44:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Url: http://www.csem.ch Message-Id: <199810190644.IAA17078@link.csem.ch> Received: from salsa (salsa.csem.ch [138.131.170.33]) by exchsrv.csem.ch with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2232.9) id TZMFDJMN; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:42:32 +0100 X-Sender: fmm@exchsrv X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:44:45 +0200 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com From: "Fernando D. Mato Mira" Subject: Re: XZ In-Reply-To: <199810190015.RAA15185@fir.engr.sgi.com> References: <19981018015624.H4768@uni-koblenz.de> <19981016214659.A2754@zigzegv.ml.org> <19981017111725.D1121@alpha.franken.de> <19981018015624.H4768@uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by link.csem.ch id IAA17078 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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? Fernando D. Mato Mira                    Real-Time SW Eng & Networking            Advanced Systems Engineering Division CSEM - Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique                                 Jaquet-Droz 1                         email:  matomira@acm.org CH-2007 Neuchatel                       tel: +41 (32) 720-5157 Switzerland                             FAX: +41 (32) 720-5720 www.csem.ch                  w ww.vrai.com               http://ligwww.epfl.ch/matomira.html