From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7D50GS29299 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:00:16 -0700 Received: from mail.foobazco.org (snowman.foobazco.org [198.144.194.230]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7D50Fj29295 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:00:15 -0700 Received: from galt.foobazco.org (galt.foobazco.org [198.144.194.227]) by mail.foobazco.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226513E90; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:48:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by galt.foobazco.org (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 1877513FD0; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:54:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:54:42 -0700 From: Keith M Wesolowski To: Ilya Volynets Cc: Mark Nellemann , linux-mips mail list Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot linux on an O2 r5k ? Message-ID: <20010812215442.C24560@foobazco.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01081009105200.07543@gateway> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:10:52AM -0700, Ilya Volynets wrote: > Both. The kernel sources for O2 live in cvs.foobazco.org. Also, > there are LOTS of problems. You will need some extra ethernet > adapter, for example, since MACE ethernet is not suported. (I am > working on it at the moment, but don't hold your breath). NICs that > are knownw to work: some tulip-based. NICs that are known not to > work: 3c905B-TX... Also eepro100 has worked for me in the past. Someone should investigate why the 3c doesn't work; probably the driver is doing something forbidden. While we're at it, someone should sync that tree with oss again. It doesn't appear likely that I'll be working on it for some time, if ever. > Also, things only work uncached. Well, even then I can't really claim that it "works" for any standard meaning of the word. Frankly, I'd rather people start running cached so that those problems can get fixed, especially since running cached isn't really *that* much worse anyway. > As you now understand, O2+Linux is kernel-hacker only toy at the moment. Isn't that the rule? Completeness of Linux support is directly proportional to the degree of obsolescence of the hardware. You want full support, just run Irix... it's not like it's windows or anything. -- Keith M Wesolowski http://foobazco.org/~wesolows ------(( Project Foobazco Coordinator and Network Administrator ))------ "There is no such song as 'Acid Acid Acid' by 'The Acid Heads' but there might as well be." --jwz