From owner-freebsd-platforms Wed Jan 9 0:58:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994C637B420 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:58:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0095.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.95] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16OEYs-0004zf-00; Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:58:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3C062A.89A0F551@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:58:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: popcorn@prodigy.net Cc: freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for SGI References: <200201090429.g094TUg304206@pimout4-int.prodigy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Scott popcorn wrote: > I recently obtained an SGI Onyx 2 computer (circa 1996), and I was > wondering if/when there would be a FreeBSD port to it. Thanks for any > information you can provide :) Do you have documentation for the hardware? That's always the big question, and the answer is usually "no". If you do, a port should be pretty easy, given the NetBSD Rx000 code and the FreeBSD code, with a machine in hand. Probably, you would be better off running NetBSD at present. PS: In the future, address questions like this to FreeBSD-platforms, where I have posted this response... see also: -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message