Hi There > > 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 Thanks Keith and Ralf for your information on running a R10000 O2 with Linux. I knew that the video and sound HW as well as some of the machine's graphics features were not supported by any linux drivers, because it's even hard on SGI/Irix to find useful documentation about this hardware! I guess this is the point why so few developers have programmed applications that would take advantage of the very nice capabilities of the machine. So, I still would like to contribute something to the implementation of Linux on SGI machines and I have this O2 standing on my desk. I have installed and maintained some I386 based linux systems, but am not really into fixing kernels. As I see there's no kernel that will boot rightaway (with or without screen console). Let me know if the situation is hopeless or if I can make a step taking a current mips-kernel (any specific R10000-patch around there?) and start to consult R10000/ SGI O2 manuals. It would be nice, but maybe I'm too much on the admin/user side and for sure I am not into developing kernels. Anyway, curious I am... Cheers, Reto
