Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:13:30 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone working on a SGI PC? Message-ID: <36AC8A1A.FF8D3010@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <36AB36F1.E61B2198@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <199901241729.KAA04523@harmony.village.org>
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I think an XFree86 port will come sooner or later; it seems like there is interest in some SGI engineers to port linux and they'll have to deal with this. Meanwhile, having PicoBSD for this platform would be a good sign :-). It's curious that there's no Irix for this platforms: they sold out to M$ :(. Pedro. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <36AB36F1.E61B2198@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> "Pedro > F. Giffuni" writes: > : There is a comment in slashdot about Linux supporting the new SGI > : workstations, but since even M$-Windows works there it shouldn't be > : difficult to run FreeBSD: > > There has been discussion about this in the linux/mips mailing > lists. Turns out that they used mostly PC compatible hardware, but > there are a few execptions. The memory subsystem is nonstandard, but > that won't impact freebsd. However, the main problem is with the > graphics subsystem... That's 90% of the reason I'd want a SGI PC.. > > Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the message
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