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 OAA71442 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id OAA31034 for linux-list; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:32:02 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from 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 OAA11788; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:31:59 -0800 (PST) mail_from (martin@jaleo.idecnet.com) Received: from maru (jaleo.idecnet.com [194.179.48.59]) by 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 SMTP id OAA01563; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:24:34 -0800 (PST) mail_from (martin@jaleo.idecnet.com) Received: from jaleo.idecnet.com (nuucp@localhost) by maru (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via UUCP id WAA11153; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:14:45 GMT Received: from teta by jaleo.idecnet.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/930416.SGI) id WAA18079; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:21:01 GMT Received: from jaleo.idecnet.com by teta (950413.SGI.8.6.12) id WAA10660; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:21:01 GMT Message-ID: <36FC084C.52E747A5@jaleo.idecnet.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 22:21:01 +0000 From: Martin Mielke Organization: Jaleo Development Team X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (X11; I; IRIX64 6.2 IP28) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ariel Faigon CC: "linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com" Subject: Re: Port to R3000 Indigo References: <199903262208.OAA31331@oz.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ariel Faigon wrote: > As Linus use to say: talk is cheap, show me the code... ;-) > > It won't happen by itself, only if someone devotes serious > time to it. My personal feeling is that Linux on R3000 > will not happen (there are cheaper and faster old pentium 90's > out there) but if someone builds it... I've been wrong before. > > : > :And I know a group at KSC that's getting rid of a bunch of O2s. We'd love to > :grab them and make a nice little Beowulf cluster out of them :-). > :Unfortunately, we don't have the time at work to do a port :-( > : > :> I think it would be very relevant. My company recently sold around 30 > :> of the R3000 Indigo's. Just about every person who bought one of these > :> was interested in the SGI/Linux project and wanted to know if they would > :> some day be able to run Linux on it. > :> > > -- > Peace, Ariel Hello, I'm new to this list, so please accept my apologies if this has been already addressed. Why porting it to the R3000? are there any big advantages in doing it? IMHO, it would be clever and nicer to port Linux to, at least, R5K and above. Are there any news on this issue?? what's the latest status? Thanks in advance! Best regards and have a good weekend, Martin -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Martin Mielke - SysAdmin Tel.: ++ 34 928 262299 c/. Albareda 54 - Atico Jaleo Development Team Fax : ++ 34 928 263504 E-35008 Las Palmas de GC martin@jaleo.idecnet.com http://www.jaleo.com/ Canary Islands / Spain "killing nature killing animals - don't disturb we love our chemicals" K.N.K.A. by Project Pitchfork =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ echo "\$0&\$0">_;chmod +x _;./_ ]-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-