From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Daniel Robert Franklin <daniel@ieee.uow.edu.au>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Linux on the Origin 2000
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:18:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020418181848.B25562@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16y0Hf-0001Ag-00@klystron.ieee.uow.edu.au>; from daniel@ieee.uow.edu.au on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:00:22AM +1000
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:00:22AM +1000, Daniel Robert Franklin wrote:
> My research centre has been donated a beautiful SGI Origin 2000 server (512
> MB RAM, 2x180 MHz R10000 CPU) machine... we got IRIX up on it, but I'm quite
> keen to try running Linux on it as well. I note in the linux-mips HOWTO
> there is a mention that as of last year the kernel boots, and code to
> support this machine is now in CVS, but it all sounds rather experimental.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the status of Origin 2000 support is, and is it
> worth trying to install? I'd be quite keen to help in testing Linux on this
> machine (if I can get Debian up and running on it I will be very very happy
> indeed :)
Lacking access to a machine the code may have suffered some bitrot but
basically it's supposed to work though not as fullfeatured as the 32-bit
kernel. We had it running on MP systems of 2-128 processors.
Ralf
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2002-04-18 1:00 Linux on the Origin 2000 Daniel Robert Franklin
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