2.2pre9 has VW support

So I suppose some of you have seen this, but do any SGI folks care to comment knowledgeably?

http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/01/21/0727205.shtml

http://edge.linuxhq.com/changelist.cgi?show=2.2.0pre9

--jeff

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:So I suppose some of you have seen this, but do any SGI folks care to :comment knowledgeably?
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:http://www.slashdot.org/articles/99/01/21/0727205.shtml
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:http://edge.linuxhq.com/changelist.cgi?show=2.2.0pre9
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I guess I can comment on this.

Bent Hagemark (an SGI engineer) figured out how to boot Linux on the VisWS, including recognizing the low level hardware, wrote the patch, emailed it to Ingo Molnar for review and comments, Ingo made some minor changes to better fit in the scheme of things, sent it to Linus, and there we have it in the official Linux tree :-)

Please note that this only enables booting the VisWS multi user and it doesn't yet have accelerated graphics support as Ken Klingman said before. I'm sure Ken can add more information and correct me where I'm wrong.

Peace, Ariel