From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:38:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from p508B7102.dip.t-dialin.net ([IPv6:::ffff:80.139.113.2]:48926 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:38:40 +0100 Received: from fluff.linux-mips.net (fluff.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.12.11/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5MJcdlS011804; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:38:39 +0200 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by fluff.linux-mips.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5MJcdDD011803; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:38:39 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:38:39 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Alexander Voropay Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Howto run Linux on ACER PICA 61 Message-ID: <20040622193839.GA7082@linux-mips.org> References: <01d701c45875$5205b460$0200000a@ALEC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01d701c45875$5205b460$0200000a@ALEC> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5349 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:23:57PM +0400, Alexander Voropay wrote: > I've just got (for free :) an ancient MIPS ACER PICA 61 motherboard. > > Can anyone help/guide me to run Linux-MIPS on this machine ? > Is it still possible to run Linux on this architecture ? > > The motherboard is old (~1993) and it is very difficult to find > any documentations... AFAIK, this is version of ARC MIPS. > (mipsel) > > > This is Full-size AT board, AT power supply, 5 ISA slots, 8 SIMM > slots. The CPU is PACEMIPS R4000-50Mhz (x2=100 internal ???) by > Performance Semiconductor Corp.. NatSemi Ethernet/AUI onboard. > No IDE connector. One additional slot is not ISA, but maked as > IO an contains SCSI/Floppy/Serial/Perallel/Mice card. Another slot > is like reversed EISA (double) and marked as VIO (locabus video?). > Unfortunately, the original videocard is lost. :( Great. Because that was a S3 968 video card which for it's time was delivering quite a nice performance. > However it works fine with old CirrusLogic VGA card in ISA slot (old > ISA Trident 8900/9000 does not works). Linux has code for this system but it's suffering from severe bitrot. I still have the documents here so I could help you a bit if you were willing to resurrect the kernel - which should be relativly easy, also due to the system's similarity to another, somewhat better supported system, the Olivetti M700-10. Ralf