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 (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA18602; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:56 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA19080 for linux-list; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:46 -0700 Received: from morgaine.engr.sgi.com (morgaine.engr.sgi.com [130.62.16.64]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA19070 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:43 -0700 Received: (from offer@localhost) by morgaine.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id JAA15059 for linux; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:13 -0700 From: offer@sgi.com (richard offer) Message-Id: <9706170923.ZM15068@sgi.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:12 -0700 In-Reply-To: "David S. Miller" "Re: Good news: no more begging for HW" (Jun 16, 10:01pm) References: <199706170201.WAA00413@jenolan.caipgeneral> X-Signature: Automatically generated by Richards Own Mail Signer (roms) X-Home-Page: http://reality.sgi.com/offer X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: linux@morgaine.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: Good news: no more begging for HW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk * $ from davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu at "16-Jun:10:01pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /" * * * From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) * Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:41 -0700 (PDT) * * I cannot promise anything since there may be some oversubscription * to the service :-) * * I think the fairest way would be to publish all these requests on * this forum and have the people who care (us) vote on who should get * them. I certainly don't want to be the fascist person who decides * who gets what. * * Before this gets out of control, I just want to express one sentiment * of high caution. * * Although it may seem desirable to contribute most of the donation * hardware to kernel level hackers, this can be a mistake in the making. * At this stage in the game it is just as important to get userland/libc * developers machines. * * Therefore I suggest that at least one person who knows GNU libc, * binutils, _and_ gcc internals backwards and forwards be on the top of * the donation list. We need an X server if we are ever going to get it usable by real users---or is everyone assuming its for headles machines only. I would put an X server above most applications in terms of priority (just below native gcc/libc). Perhaps one ought to go to Xfree86/someone who knows our hardware (not to start this thread all over again). This should be very tighly focused, since an X server is a lot of work and we need a lot of them, one per board (okay in version one we could only support 1280x1024x8, but that seems a waste of all our spiffy hardware). I used to have a contact in Xfree86, but I haven't heard from him for a while. If someone takes the server, I'll try and get the clients libraries done (assuming that I can get remote access to a box). richard. ____________________________________________________________________ A Guest Signature from Laurent Duperval I don't understand why people break up and then get back together. It's like going to the fridge, taking a carton of milk that has gone bad, then saying: "I'll put it back and see if it's better tomorrow."