IP35 Origin 300/3000 support?
Hi,
The wiki page:
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP35
states "IP35 is not yet supported by Linux. A port initially targeting only the Origin 300 has been started".
The last edit of the wiki was in 2007, does anyone know if it is now supported by Linux/Debian?
Would access to hardware help?
Thanks in advance,
Quoted 9 lines · Laurent GUERBY
The wiki page:
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP35
states "IP35 is not yet supported by Linux. A port initially targeting only the Origin 300 has been started".
The last edit of the wiki was in 2007, does anyone know if it is now supported by Linux/Debian?
No; the page accurately reflects the status of kernel development where I stopped.
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Would access to hardware help?
Only to a limited degree - the project has currently not yet reached the stage where access to more hardware would really be useful. But before somebody dumps the hardware I can be convinced to give it a good home :-) At some point having access to more configurations will be essential - dealing with different configurations on Origin class hardware is very complex. My current hardware is a single module, Origin 300 with 4 R10000 CPUs.
Ralf
Quoted 17 lines · Ralf Baechle
Quoted 9 lines · Laurent GUERBY
The wiki page:
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/IP35
states "IP35 is not yet supported by Linux. A port initially targeting only the Origin 300 has been started".
The last edit of the wiki was in 2007, does anyone know if it is now supported by Linux/Debian?
No; the page accurately reflects the status of kernel development where I stopped.
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Would access to hardware help?
Quoted 7 lines
Only to a limited degree - the project has currently not yet reached the stage where access to more hardware would really be useful. But before somebody dumps the hardware I can be convinced to give it a good home :-) At some point having access to more configurations will be essential - dealing with different configurations on Origin class hardware is very complex. My current hardware is a single module, Origin 300 with 4 R10000 CPUs.
For the compile farm project I manage I was proposed a donation of the exact same hardware (Origin 300 with 4 cpus and 2GB RAM). I'll let you know when I have more information.
BTW, in the SGI/MIPS family, do you know what is the most powerful hardware currently supported (hardware not weighting near a ton, more like a workstation or a few U)? Bootstraping GCC takes a while these days :).
Thanks for your help,
Quoted 8 lines · Laurent GUERBY
For the compile farm project I manage I was proposed a donation of the exact same hardware (Origin 300 with 4 cpus and 2GB RAM). I'll let you know when I have more information.
BTW, in the SGI/MIPS family, do you know what is the most powerful hardware currently supported (hardware not weighting near a ton, more like a workstation or a few U)? Bootstraping GCC takes a while these days :).
Some R10000-family based workstation that would be then. That leaves the choice between the Indigo 2 R10000 (supported in tree), O2 (R10000 version not supported in-tree and external patches not stable afaik) and the Octane which is only supported by external patches.
If you're just after raw computing power for bootstrapping GCC then maybe what you want is something like a Broadcom Swarm or Big Sur evaluation board which have 2 rsp. 4 pretty beefy cores with FPU. Maybe there is also something Cavium-based that works reasonably well - my Cavium system unfortunately has no PATA or SATA controller and no PCI slots thus no local storage.
My personal wish to eval board developers - design those things to be usable like workstations or headless servers, with the option of local storage and a system controller along the lines of an Origins that allows remote reset etc. Costs one microcontroller extra, adds alots of usability. Malta got that one right (send a break on the serial console for reset) and Cavium has an extra serial port for that sort of use.
Ralf