From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA83711 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA92972 for linux-list; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:50:48 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA97882 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:50:46 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@infopact.nl) Received: from bronx.bizarre.nl (9dyn101.breda.casema.net [195.96.116.101]) by sgi.sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id NAA00163 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (richardh@infopact.nl) Received: from infopact.nl (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bronx.bizarre.nl (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA01731; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:54:22 +0200 Message-ID: <36095FFD.F4A33EEC@infopact.nl> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:54:22 +0200 From: Richard Hartensveld X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Bogendoerfer CC: Alex deVries , Rob Lembree , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: challenge s boots linux References: <36081982.8D3B6975@infopact.nl> <19980923212241.01963@alpha.franken.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk 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