Re: challenge s boots linux

[Richard Hartensveld <richardh@infopact.nl>]

Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:24:20PM -0400, Alex deVries wrote:
> >       First, I wonder how much of the kernel will actually work on the
> > Challenge S; I'm told there are SCSI controller differences.
>
> looking linus.linux.sgi.com, which is AFAIK a Challenge S, it seems the
> Challenge has a wd33c93 and a wd33c95. The wd33c93 is what we already support.
> As long as the harddisk are attached to it, it should work. The wd33c95
> is a rather strange chip, and from the datasheet I have here, it looks like
> a lot of work to write a driver for it, because besides the kernel code,
> you have to write sequence code for the chip, too.
>
> >       The install kernel you're using (and oh god, is it ever a bad one)
> > is broken in that serial console won't work.  Yes, I should have looked
> > into it way back when.
>
> When I did the new console code, I first made the serial console working.
> As far as I remember I had to do some ugly hacks, but I'll try to clean
> it up and check it in.
>

I'm going to build the cross compiler right now and get myself involved in
linux/sgi porting, i've got
a reasonable amount of sgi's overhere to test on and maybe even get linux to boot
a kernel on a non-indy machine.

Richard