Return-Path: From: Ralf Baechle Message-ID: <199706061836.UAA18495@kernel.panic.julia.de> Subject: Re: Merge back of the MIPS sources Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:36:48 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199706061807.LAA01554@piecomputer.engr.sgi.com> from "Bob Mende Pie" at Jun 6, 97 11:07:29 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Bob Mende Pie Cc: ralf@Julia.DE, ariel@sgi.com, linux@yon.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970606183648.-rMMgzVYJQ1N6SStm-kpZSIt9pI_J-5lNBIKEonyYx4@z> > Have you verified that the newest code still works on the other MIPS > based systems? Also, is it possible to have (linux) binary compatability > between a mips Magnum or Millennium and an Indy? By principle there is no problem to feed these machines even with IRIX binaries. Right now the port to these machines assumes that it is running on the machine configured to little endian mode but porting to big endian should be easy. > There is a 50Mhz Millennium over here that we might be able to use as a > test system. The support for these machines is currently not complete yet. We don't yet have SCSI driver which should be easy to write because the machine also uses the same NCR53C94 / FAS213 SCSI chip as the Sparc port already does. In fact I'd be very happy if someone would take care of these machines. By supporting the Millenium we'd also have most of the support for the Olivetti M700 (mostly an OEM Magnum), Acer PICA, certain machines based on a Toshiba chipset and at least partially the NEC RISCstation series. > /Bob... mailto:mende@sgi.com > http://reality.sgi.com/mende/ KF6EID 73 de Ralf