From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3J1Hl8d017060 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:17:47 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3J1HlPL017059 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:17:47 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3J1Hi8d017056 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:17:44 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g3J1Inu05981; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:18:49 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:18:48 -0700 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Robert Franklin Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Linux on the Origin 2000 Message-ID: <20020418181848.B25562@dea.linux-mips.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel@ieee.uow.edu.au on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:00:22AM +1000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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