On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:00:22AM +1000, Daniel Robert Franklin wrote: > My research centre has been donated a beautiful SGI Origin 2000 server (512 > MB RAM, 2x180 MHz R10000 CPU) machine... we got IRIX up on it, but I'm quite > keen to try running Linux on it as well. I note in the linux-mips HOWTO > there is a mention that as of last year the kernel boots, and code to > support this machine is now in CVS, but it all sounds rather experimental. > > Can anyone tell me what the status of Origin 2000 support is, and is it > worth trying to install? I'd be quite keen to help in testing Linux on this > machine (if I can get Debian up and running on it I will be very very happy > indeed :) Lacking access to a machine the code may have suffered some bitrot but basically it's supposed to work though not as fullfeatured as the 32-bit kernel. We had it running on MP systems of 2-128 processors. Ralf
