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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To:     "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
Cc:     Marc Esipovich <marc@mucom.co.il>,
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Subject: Re: Question for David Miller or anyone else about R6000 code
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On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 12:41:08PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> The R10000/R12000 programs are still within SGI,
> and are not supported directly by MIPS Technologies
> Inc.   The MIPS/Linux kernel today does not support
> the R10000 (there's a panic("CPU too expensive");
> somewhere if the Processor ID for R10K is detected),

MIPS64 has R10k support.  I didn't even try to fix it for MIPS32 because
that kernel only supports upto 512mb memory.  And as you say it was
easy to implement.

  Ralf