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From: Ashley Evans <ashley@seamlessrecruitment.com>
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Ralf Baechle wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:33:54AM +0100, Ashley Evans wrote:
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>  
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>>I'm also new to the list. I'm hoping that the HOWTO hasn't been updated 
>>re. the status of the above processor.
>>
>>I've just aquired a Challenge DM w/ dual R4400mc processors and would 
>>really like to run Linux (or anything that's OSS for that matter).
>>    
>>
>
>Challenge DM isn't supported and won't be as long as nobody makes an
>attempt to support it, sorry ...
>
>  Ralf
>  
>

Thanks, just thought I'd ask.

I believe it's the cache controller that's the problem? I don't have the 
skills to do it myself but if somebody could explain the issue i'd like 
to know?

Ashley