On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:07:16PM -0800, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > For not repeating here what has already been done: > > Has anyone ever tried the same before and what are the problems to > > encounter? I will most likely boot from a bootp linux server. Is there a > > chance that I get a console on my O2 or do I only have a serial > > connection. > > There is no chance whatever that you will get anything. If you want > to have any chance at all of getting this to work I would recommend > you ask Harald for his latest patch; it provides some level of support > for r5k-based IP32 (O2) systems. r10k O2 suffers from the same > cache-noncoherency problem as r10k I2 does, and to the best of my > knowledge nobody has ever really tried to even boot one. > > Not to discourage you at all...there's just a lot of work to do. It's really hard work to do. R12000 O2s however should be much easier to do; the processor feature which causes so much grief in the O2 can be disabled there. Ralf
