From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-vax@mithra.physics.montana.edu,
Wolfgang Rupp <rupp@chello.at>
Subject: Re: DECsystem 5500 available (fwd)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:42:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041124224204.GC22439@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0411242158180.843@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:36:32PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> We may be interested in getting this system to add Linux support. It is
> quite rare and despite having an R3000 processor as its main computational
> unit it actually has a VAX processor as well, which is used for executing
> diagnostics. There is some programming-level documentation available --
> much enough I think a port should be moderately easy, at least from the
> hardware point of view. Code may require major surgery here and there,
> though.
>
> I'd take the system myself as it would be a good check for portability of
> code, but it's out of reach for me at the moment.
As long as I won't have to learn VAX assembler ;-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 22:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-24 22:36 DECsystem 5500 available (fwd) Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-11-24 22:42 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2004-11-24 23:11 ` Dave Airlie
2004-11-24 23:39 ` Ralf Baechle
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