From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:00:31 -0800 Received: from sgigate.SGI.COM ([204.94.209.1]:51881 "EHLO dea.waldorf-gmbh.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:00:06 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1H1x7803433; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:59:07 -0800 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:59:02 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: Keith M Wesolowski Cc: Stockli Reto , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: R10000 SGI O2 Message-ID: <20010216175902.C2233@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <3A895FF4.B627089E@geo.umnw.ethz.ch> <20010213190716.A29070@chem.unr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010213190716.A29070@chem.unr.edu>; from wesolows@chem.unr.edu on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:07:16PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:07:16PM -0800, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > For not repeating here what has already been done: > > Has anyone ever tried the same before and what are the problems to > > encounter? I will most likely boot from a bootp linux server. Is there a > > chance that I get a console on my O2 or do I only have a serial > > connection. > > There is no chance whatever that you will get anything. If you want > to have any chance at all of getting this to work I would recommend > you ask Harald for his latest patch; it provides some level of support > for r5k-based IP32 (O2) systems. r10k O2 suffers from the same > cache-noncoherency problem as r10k I2 does, and to the best of my > knowledge nobody has ever really tried to even boot one. > > Not to discourage you at all...there's just a lot of work to do. It's really hard work to do. R12000 O2s however should be much easier to do; the processor feature which causes so much grief in the O2 can be disabled there. Ralf