Re: SNI RM300C with R10000

Re: SNI RM300C with R10000

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Sergey Sivkov <ssp@woodland.ru> [2006-04-25 13:56]:
> I have SNI RM300C with R10000 CPU. Is there any chance i'll be able
> to start Linux on that computer?

Certainly not out of the box.  However, Ralf Baechle (the MIPS kernel
maintainer) has (or used to have) a RM200C so it might be possible to
get it going.

Ralf, what's the status of RM200C/RM300C support?
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Martin Michlmayr
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Re: SNI RM300C with R10000

[Ralf Baechle]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * Sergey Sivkov <ssp@woodland.ru> [2006-04-25 13:56]:
> > I have SNI RM300C with R10000 CPU. Is there any chance i'll be able
> > to start Linux on that computer?
> 
> Certainly not out of the box.  However, Ralf Baechle (the MIPS kernel
> maintainer) has (or used to have) a RM200C so it might be possible to
> get it going.
> 
> Ralf, what's the status of RM200C/RM300C support?

Slight bitrot but would be easy to fix that.  The reason for the bitrot
is that my RM is still in Germany ...

  Ralf

Re: SNI RM300C with R10000

[Sergey Sivkov]

Thanks for all replies.

I have readed wiki pages at http://www.linux-mips.org. For now i know what type of RM300C i have:
big endian RM300C-80 with R10000 and SNI Monitor.

AFAIK, i have next options to start Linux on that computer:
1.\ to use network boot
2.\ to create boot CD with Disk Volume Header
3.\ to change bootloader to ARC and to use Debian MIPS boot CD.
I can't use option 3 because we have purchased RM300C as used hardware w/o any documentation and licensies (and w/o SCSI discs).
Will kernels placed at http://silicon-verl.de/home/flo/projects/snirm/kernel/ work with big endian R10000?
Can i create test version of boot CD with Disk Volume Header and Linux kernel only?

					WBR, ssp

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:16:20PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> 
> > * Sergey Sivkov <ssp@woodland.ru> [2006-04-25 13:56]:
> > > I have SNI RM300C with R10000 CPU. Is there any chance i'll be able
> > > to start Linux on that computer?
> > 
> > Certainly not out of the box.  However, Ralf Baechle (the MIPS kernel
> > maintainer) has (or used to have) a RM200C so it might be possible to
> > get it going.
> > 
> > Ralf, what's the status of RM200C/RM300C support?
> 
> Slight bitrot but would be easy to fix that.  The reason for the bitrot
> is that my RM is still in Germany ...
> 
>   Ralf
> 
> 
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