From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 14:02:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8815A16A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:02:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com (iris.cobite.com [208.222.83.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E24743D4C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:02:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADC7987DD for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15453-03 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix, from userid 45000) id 9E09398847; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [208.222.80.101] (victor.cobite.com [208.222.80.101]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34214987DD for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:02:22 -0400 From: "OgnenD." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cobite.com Subject: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:02:07 -0000 Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look into what has been done so far? Thanks, Ognen From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 14:10:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E58116A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowuff@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69E443D55 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:10:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowuff@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so558559rna for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:10:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=qXLLmK4AbBrF11umn23qtlPqWEz5J4+qDHJfYAblLfQ3GZ2j1Trn2MTRt9hc36eDbaL+YhZy5VNOvcaSlPzdGoKbPXfN1+kQp9UC+4+e653fvlFjQQipkx8TIIVgvv/IJqPuUD3H798h020WAXkOBfGATwebVDQtEvn0el/5hgM= Received: by 10.38.74.9 with SMTP id w9mr182773rna; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.24.35 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:10:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:10:28 -0700 From: beowuff To: "OgnenD." In-Reply-To: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beowuff List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:10:29 -0000 Ognen, I don't think this project is still active. Yours is the only email I've gotten in a year of being on the list. I have an SGI O2 10,000. So far, I've had OpenBSD and NetBSD both installed and working great. Good luck. Yancy Burns On 6/24/05, OgnenD. wrote: > Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look > into what has been done so far? > Thanks, > Ognen > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 14:15:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62C1116A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:15:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com (iris.cobite.com [208.222.83.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339A143D49 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:15:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A8698847 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15094-10 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix, from userid 45000) id 24920988AB; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:15:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [208.222.80.101] (victor.cobite.com [208.222.80.101]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7A998847 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:15:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42BC159D.1030808@daocomputing.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:15:57 -0400 From: "OgnenD." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cobite.com Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:15:44 -0000 Hi Yancy, I have an origin 200. Was hoping to learn the ins and outs of an OS by trying to help and port... Are there any documents, starting points etc. you can recommend regarding this project? Thanks, Ognen beowuff wrote: >Ognen, > >I don't think this project is still active. Yours is the only email >I've gotten in a year of being on the list. I have an SGI O2 10,000. >So far, I've had OpenBSD and NetBSD both installed and working great. >Good luck. > >Yancy Burns > >On 6/24/05, OgnenD. wrote: > > >>Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look >>into what has been done so far? >>Thanks, >>Ognen >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > > > > From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 15:24:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6702916A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flata@magnesium.net) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549E443D4C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flata@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1212) id 043AFDA897; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:24:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:24:04 -1000 From: juli mallett To: "OgnenD." Message-ID: <20050624152404.GA75604@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Towel: Yes Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:24:05 -0000 * "OgnenD." [ Date: 2005-06-24 ] [ w.r.t. project active? ] > Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look > into what has been done so far? I'm the only person who's ever been seriously working on it, and I have a serious lack of time. It's effectively inactive right now. If you want an old source code drop, I can tar one up, if you're seriously interested, and explain what's there and what's not. Thanx, juli. -- juli mallett. "It's called love and somehow it's become unmentionable." -- New Order - Thieves Like Us From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 15:26:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7D016A41C; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:26:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com (iris.cobite.com [208.222.83.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC2A743D1F; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ognen@daocomputing.com) Received: from localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3009988AD; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from email-pri.cobite.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iris.cobite.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17387-05; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix, from userid 45000) id 9DBB398909; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:26:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [208.222.80.101] (victor.cobite.com [208.222.80.101]) by email-pri.cobite.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78440988AD; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:26:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42BC262F.3010404@daocomputing.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:26:39 -0400 From: "OgnenD." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: juli mallett References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> <20050624152404.GA75604@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <20050624152404.GA75604@toxic.magnesium.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cobite.com Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:26:30 -0000 juli mallett wrote: >* "OgnenD." [ Date: 2005-06-24 ] > [ w.r.t. project active? ] > > >>Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look >>into what has been done so far? >> >> > >I'm the only person who's ever been seriously working on it, and I >have a serious lack of time. It's effectively inactive right now. >If you want an old source code drop, I can tar one up, if you're >seriously interested, and explain what's there and what's not. > >Thanx, >juli. > > Hi, I am interested. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Ognen From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 15:33:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D6A16A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:33:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowuff@gmail.com) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096F043D55 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:32:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beowuff@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r35so578646rna for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:32:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PvG/IoV57jRdWlgXMBtSG62gDmT+REKubj/HNRnp50iDi4Hr+d1yyrm6tfm4uot9DR0GwlogJ6+EklsosIGzhoCOmrVkEPmP6Zu5rXl1dyekvMsrzK0qLKWXOjUwbOp8tzZ0pI7Ip+7BrxrTa2F03oYf7Qnq9YYYvyVnIRGkZpU= Received: by 10.38.74.9 with SMTP id w9mr219903rna; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.24.35 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:32:59 -0700 From: beowuff To: "OgnenD." In-Reply-To: <42BC159D.1030808@daocomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> <42BC159D.1030808@daocomputing.com> Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beowuff List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:33:00 -0000 Well, I used OpenBSD because it officially supported the O2 10000. I don't see the Origin 200 listed on NetBSD... OpenBSD's site specifically lists porting to the 200 here, http://openbsd.org/sgi.html, so that might be a good place to start. Other options show Gentoo linux with experamntal support here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml. Debian has had mips support for awhile, but I'm not finding anything for the Origin. Anyway, good luck! And have fun! Yancy beowuff@gmail.com On 6/24/05, OgnenD. wrote: > Hi Yancy, >=20 > I have an origin 200. Was hoping to learn the ins and outs of an OS by > trying to help and port... >=20 > Are there any documents, starting points etc. you can recommend > regarding this project? >=20 > Thanks, > Ognen >=20 > beowuff wrote: >=20 > >Ognen, > > > >I don't think this project is still active. Yours is the only email > >I've gotten in a year of being on the list. I have an SGI O2 10,000. > >So far, I've had OpenBSD and NetBSD both installed and working great. > >Good luck. > > > >Yancy Burns > > > >On 6/24/05, OgnenD. wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look > >>into what has been done so far? > >>Thanks, > >>Ognen > >>_______________________________________________ > >>freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mips@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mips > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mips-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 17:00:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CACE16A41C; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:00:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flata@magnesium.net) Received: from toxic.magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F7143D48; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:00:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flata@magnesium.net) Received: by toxic.magnesium.net (Postfix, from userid 1212) id 2097CDA837; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 07:00:37 -1000 From: juli mallett To: "OgnenD." Message-ID: <20050624170037.GA79920@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> <20050624152404.GA75604@toxic.magnesium.net> <42BC262F.3010404@daocomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42BC262F.3010404@daocomputing.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Towel: Yes Cc: juli mallett , freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:00:37 -0000 * "OgnenD." [ Date: 2005-06-24 ] [ w.r.t. Re: project active? ] > juli mallett wrote: > >* "OgnenD." [ Date: 2005-06-24 ] > > [ w.r.t. project active? ] > >>Hi, is this project still active? What is the best/fastest way to look > >>into what has been done so far? > >I'm the only person who's ever been seriously working on it, and I > >have a serious lack of time. It's effectively inactive right now. > >If you want an old source code drop, I can tar one up, if you're > >seriously interested, and explain what's there and what's not. > > Hi, I am interested. Any help would be appreciated. OK, well here's my src tree: http://lafalafu.com/FreeBSD/MIPS/mips-2005-06-24.tgz Here's a script I use to rebuild everything for an INDY: %%% #! /bin/csh setenv SRCROOT ${HOME}/FreeBSD/p4/mips setenv TARGET_ARCH mips setenv TARGET sgimips setenv MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX ${HOME}/FreeBSD/mips.build setenv COPTFLAGS '' setenv KERNCONF INDY cd ${SRCROOT} sudo make buildworld >& ${HOME}/FreeBSD/mips.buildworld.log sudo make buildkernel >& ${HOME}/FreeBSD/mips.buildkernel.log %%% That will leave a kernel built in my $HOME/FreeBSD/mips.build/sgimips/$HOME/FreeBSD/p4/mips/sys/INDY That's a tar of the "mips" directory in ~/FreeBSD/p4. Adjust paths accordingly. The kernel: o) Should run in mips64emul and on an Indy or Indigo2. o) Doesn't support caches and runs uncached. o) Lacks device drivers. o) Doesn't have completed userland support. I'd really like to see a simple mips64emul (now GXemul, I guess) machine which supported PIO-based serial console and networking. That'd be enough to get a very simple machine port working that'd be good for getting everything finished. I ended up spending all my time making attempts to support SGI hardware without enough time to finish any job. Some notes: o) I've tried to avoid using NetBSD code. -) The NetBSD code is all very old and crufty. -) NetBSD is committed to supporting MIPS1 and all that nonsense. I only support MIPS3 and up. This means only 64-bit. I don't care to support MIPS32. In theory, the new MIPS32 chips are MIPS3-like, though, with smaller address spaces and such. It would be easy to add ifdefs for them, but I think it'd be stupid to try to support everything too early. o) I've only looked at the OpenBSD code when someone told me that it was 64-bit, and not based on NetBSD in parts. I found that their TLB stuff is ripped off from NetBSD without attribution, with comments intact, and the 64-bit support is hackish. o) I've tried to do things cleanly, in a way that will expand to support a lot of hardware architectures on top of the base CPU port. Oh, actually, an aside. Changes to Binutils and GCC gave me a hard time to continue building 32-bit ELF with 64-bit code. So now I build 64-bit kernels. For real Indys and Indigo2s, you'd want to build a 32-bit laoder which could load the ELF64. So the kernels should run on real hardware *if you can load them.* I stripped out everything I wasn't actively testing, to try and make it easier to reshuffle code and such, so you'd prolly need to add code for recognizing the CPUs in question to the mips_wtf() code. Anyway, hope this helps, I'll be glad to answer further questions and help anyone who has time to work on it. As an aside, if anyone wants to employ me to work on it, drop me a line, I still have a real attachment to the idea of getting this done (and done right) some day :) Thanx, juli. -- juli mallett. "It's called love and somehow it's become unmentionable." -- New Order - Thieves Like Us From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 24 20:53:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8ACF16A41C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:53:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thephantom@cogeco.ca) Received: from fep6.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9481543D5C for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:53:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thephantom@cogeco.ca) Received: from cogeco.ca (d141-168-137.home.cgocable.net [24.141.168.137]) by fep6.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405B524F0 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:53:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42BC72CA.2050609@cogeco.ca> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:53:30 -0400 From: The Phantom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: other OS for MIPS news X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:53:15 -0000 This recent flurry of activity got me curious, so I googled up some other MIPS-64 bit OS activity. http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Main_Page is active, and has this (probably squirrly) Octane patch here: http://skylark.cs.put.poznan.pl/ip30/ From owner-freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 01:55:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD1D16A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:55:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ralf@linux-mips.org) Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org (mail.linux-mips.org [62.254.210.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E8843D53 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:55:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ralf@linux-mips.org) Received: (from localhost user: 'ralf' uid#501 fake: STDIN (ralf@ultimateshells-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net)) by linux-mips.org id ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:56:31 +0100 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 02:56:31 +0100 Sender: Ralf Baechle From: Ralf Baechle To: beowuff Message-ID: <20050625015631.GA19413@linux-mips.org> References: <42BC126E.1000506@daocomputing.com> <42BC159D.1030808@daocomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org Subject: Re: project active? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mips@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to MIPS List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:55:46 -0000 On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:32:59AM -0700, beowuff wrote: > Well, I used OpenBSD because it officially supported the O2 10000. I > don't see the Origin 200 listed on NetBSD... OpenBSD's site > specifically lists porting to the 200 here, > http://openbsd.org/sgi.html, so that might be a good place to start. OpenBSD afaik still has no NUMA support and without that the scalability would be rather low limiting the usefulness of such a port. I'd says the limit is something like 8 processors that is a single Origin 200 module; going beyond would be painful. > Other options show Gentoo linux with experamntal support here > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mips-requirements.xml. > > Debian has had mips support for awhile, but I'm not finding anything > for the Origin. It is possible to install Debian (or any other Linux distribution) on an Origin from an NFS root. Ralf