Re: Where to start with a R4000 Indigo

[Pete Popov <ppopov@mvista.com>]

peter.zijlstra@chello.nl wrote:

>Hi,.
>
>I recently acquired a R4000 50MHz Indigo without an IRIX install nor CD
>with it. No CD-Rom player either, however I did order one, network however
>does seem to work. And as I am a linux fanatic and professional programmer 
>myself I would like to see whether I could help a bit with bringing linux to
>this system.
>
>As Indigo support isn't finished and I have nothing but a bare BIOS
>to start with; and have no experience with the machine to begin with;
>I have to ask for _help_ :)
>
>Where do I start reading and tinkering to get linux; for as far as it's
>sort of running; on my system ?
>
>Are there any specs for the machine, especially for those parts that need
>most urgent development and which parts are that ?
>
Are you sure this system is an Indigo and not an Indigo2? I thought the 
Indigo's are R3000 based and the Indigo2 is R4000 based. If it's an 
Indigo2, linux already runs on it. I've got our HardHat Linux 2.0 
booting and running of the hard drive. There's also a port of RedHat7.1. 
on oss.sgi.com.

Pete