Indigo2 port status?

Ok, so does anyone know what happened to the Indigo2 porting project? I tried to get in touch with someone at UAB but to no avail.

Sorry to bother the rest of you...

Charles Lepple
System Administrator, Virginia Tech EE Workstation Labs
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I don't know what's going on with UAB - but I just started working on a port to the Indigo2 this April after receiving some hardware specs. Needless to say with school and work, progress is a tad bit slow. Hopefully, once finals are behind me - I can focus more energy on the task.

Alan Hoyt

Where'd you receive hardware specs from?

- Alex

From Ariel Faigon - who was kind enough to provide detailed specs. for the Indy. Bill Earl stated that the two systems [indy and indigo2] were very similar but that he has not had the time to locate any additional documentation (where Indigo2 differs from Indy). Sorry for the ambiguity.

- Alan Hoyt -

Well, here at UAB, I have an Indigo2 booting the kernel, mounting root over NFS, and crashing. All this is done with very few changes to the source. I am putting together a set of patches currently. I'll post here when they are ready. I don't have submit access to the CVS tree so I won't be able to put them there. I would like some people to make sure the patches don't break the Indy ;)

Also, what is a good way of getting the boot messages to print via the prom commands? Currently I have a hacked up printk to do this, but would like something cleaner. Would it be feasible to write a prom console? It might make it easier to work on boxes without any sort of graphics support available yet...

-Andrew